The Secret People Author:John Wyndham (writing as John Benyon) The planners of the world's greatest engineering feat - the flooding of part of the Sahara desert - knew nothing of the life which teamed below their New Sea. But for the accident which plunged Mark Sunnet and his girl-friend into a cavernous world, nothing would have been known of the catastrophe which now threatened the survivors of an ancient... more » race. Their struggle against doom, and Mark's fight for survival, is the theme of this fascinating story.
THE SECRET PEOPLE, now published for the first time since 1936, presages all the imaginative brilliance which, with the publication of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS in 1951, brought John Wyndham the universal acclaim he so richly deserved.« less