Revolt of the Birds

A man named Hudson is found drifting alone on a sampan in the China Seas, drawn by some inexplicable force to a deadly island where he will confront both his destiny and his dreams. The narrative unfolds in layered fragments: his earlier doomed long-distance romance, his desperate voyage, and the strange occurrences that mount toward something terrible and inevitable. A cloud appears in the rigging one morning, lifts, and soars off against the wind pulling him forward. Birds rise in revolt. The island awaits. What begins as a ripping sea-faring adventure reveals itself as something stranger: a tale of nested stories, obsession, and the dark currents that pull us toward destruction we almost welcome. Post, better known for his detective fiction, here crafts something closer to fatalism wrapped in adventure, where the line between fate and madness dissolves.