Product Review

First novel in an epic fantasy series featuring John Lee, an accidental adventurer and a man on the run. He sails on a trade ship with Captain Sykes and Dr. Oliver Pikeham, a botanist, astronomer, and naturalist.

In DINOSAUR ISLAND, a military deserter steals the identity of a dead man and becomes “John Lee.” After years on the lam while acquiring skills as a yogi and a thug, John Lee sets sail on Captain Sykes’ clipper ship to finally head back to England with his new identity.

However, when Dr. Pikeham discovers that “John Lee” is an imposter, instead of turning him into the authorities, he offers him a job as his personal aide and protector on forays to dangerous, primitive islands so he can continue his work of studying and cataloguing the native animals. While on a shore expedition, John, Pikeham, and Sykes abandon Pikeham’s scientific equipment and flee back to the ship before Siamese pirates can attack.

Losing the pirates in a typhoon, the damaged ship encounters a mysterious island. When they go ashore to gather supplies and items to repair the ship, they encounter dinosaurs. And some of them are carnivorous…

Lost on this island of primordial, dangerous creatures, will the passengers and crew of the Nannie Dee survive this perilous adventure and the terrors of the beasts that come in the night? Will John ever see England again?

DINOSAUR ISLAND is K.T. Tomb’s first novel in The Islands that Time Forgot series and is her thirty-first book. Fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ The Land that Time Forgot will enjoy K.T. Tombs’ The Islands that Time Forgot series.


“Epic and awesome.”
—J.T. Cross, bestselling author of Beneath the Deep

“K.T. Tomb is a wonderful new voice in adventure fiction.”
—Aiden James, bestselling author of Plague of Coins