By the author of Lord of the Flies - Pincher Martin, sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is miraculously cast up on a huge barren rock in mid-Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the blaze of day, the biting cold of night and the almost unimaginable isolation of one man alone facing ever-present unpredictable death. There is the desperate matter of existence to drink, there is a pool of rainwater; to eat, there are seaweed, shellfish and sea anemones. Survival - a man's will to live.....