Sinister Paradise

"Sinister Paradise" by Robert Moore Williams is a science fiction tale set in the 1950s, focusing on a phantom island lurking off the California coast. Bill Parker, a helicopter pilot, accepts a job from the puzzling scientist Johnny Retch and his alluring secretary, Mercedes Valdar, leading them into a whirlwind of danger. Their journey becomes a battle for survival when a crash strands them on the island, where they encounter ghostly pirates and eerie beings called Jezbro. As Parker unravels the island’s mysteries, he discovers his lost love, Effra, trapped in an amnesiac loop, and now he must stop Retch’s evil plot, rescue Effra, and make his way through this strange land where time itself seems twisted.