Gift book "The Island of lost ships" by A.R. Belyaev

Belyaev's fascinating novel "The Island of Lost Ships", filmed twice, is not one of his fantastic works, but the sharp, intense plot, colorful characters and unexpected denouement make it one of the brightest examples of classic adventure literature.

...the 1920s. A transatlantic liner is wrecked in the ocean. Miraculously, the surviving passengers - Reginald Gatling, arrested for a crime he did not commit, detective Simpkins escorting him to the States, and the beautiful Viviana Kingman - are carried by the current somewhere into the stagnant waters of the terrible and mysterious Sargasso Sea, where they find themselves prisoners of the inhabitants of a mysterious man-made island created from the remains of ships brought here over many centuries of all times and peoples.