I’m sure that you’1l be relieved to know that he survives, although not all of the other good guys do. The most memorable - and sympathetic - creation is a black jaguar trained by one of the members of the government crew. The government quickly forms a search team while a multinational corporation, the company that originally financed the Rand expedition, is secretly fielding its own search team, not to rescue but to retrieve any medical data they might use and destroy the government party.Īdd to the mix a mysterious, perhaps legendary tribe of jaguar warriors, and jungle perils that beggar every imagination but that of the author and you have a predictable Rollins’ juggernaut on the move. The most notable thing about the dead returnee is that he had one arm when he disappeared with the Rand party, |but stumbled from the jungle years later with two arms. Now a surviving member has made his way from the depths of the jungle but has died, his body acidly eaten away by malignant tumors. Nathan Rand’s father and his scientific party were lost in the “lush wilderness of the Amazon” years ago and presumed dead. As you might imagine, I enjoy this sort of flimflammery. James Rollins is a vet who has written several thrillers that don’t pose any serious threat to Clive Cussler but travel the same well-worn path of outsize adventures in tropical/arctic/marine settings, with fantastic elements that include lost races, animals surviving from prehistoric times, and cardboard characters. As madness, fear and horrific death descend upon the second cursed expedition, those still living must confront a power beyond human imagining - one that can for ever alter the world beyond the dark, lethal confines of the Amazon rainforest for better.and for worse.JAMES ROLLINS – Amazonia. But each step brings the team closer to an ancient, unspoken terror that even the native people dread.

For somewhere in the dark, impenetrable depths of Earth's most dangerous region lie mysteries that must be solved.whatever the cost.Īs Nate Rand and his party push on into the jungle, they are haunted by a truth: that they are not alone. Now Nate is to follow the elder Rand's trail, along with a team of scientists and experienced US Rangers. Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and never returned - the same expedition that took Clark into the jungle.

The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm, the other lost to a sniper's bullet. Soon the CIA operative and former special forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village.

From the author of ALTAR OF EDEN and MAP OF BONES comes another fantastic mystery adventure, this time set deep in the Amazon jungle.

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