Book Club: Eden Undone: a True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler

Join us as we discuss Eden Undon: a True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler and grab some dinner at the Cary Ale House on Tuesday, November 12 @ 7.00pm. The author will not be at this event.

Please also be sure to register for the Abbott Kahler author event on Thursday, November 14 at 7:00pm at McHenry County College, where the author will be present.

Copies of Eden Undone: a True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II will be available for checkout 30 days prior at the Service Center. 

Eden Undone: a True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler
At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies, mummified by the searing heat, on the shore of a remote Galápagos island. For the past four years Hancock and other American elites had traveled the South Seas to collect specimens for scientific research. On one trip to the Galápagos, Hancock was surprised to discover an equally exotic group of humans: European exiles who had fled political and economic unrest, hoping to create a utopian paradise. As Hancock and his fellow American explorers would witness, paradise had turned into chaos. The three sets of exiles were riven by conflict. The conclusion was deadly: with two exiles missing and three others dead. 

Using never-before-published archives, Abbott Kahler weaves a chilling, stranger-than-fiction tale worthy of Agatha Christie. A mystery as alluring and curious as the Galápagos itself, Eden Undone explores the universal and timeless desire to seek utopia—and lays bare the human fallibility that, inevitably, renders such a quest doomed.