Summary: A member of a scientific expedition stumbles from the Amazon years after his entire team disappeared. The catch is he went in missing an arm, and came out with both arms. The government sends in a team to figure out what happened, and one of the members selected is the son of one of the original expedition members.
Setting: Present day U.S. and South America
Plot: Nathan Rand is selected to join a team exploring the Amazon, looking for traces of his father’s expedition which vanished four years earlier. During their quest, they’re pursued by a mercenary hit man and driven directly into the arms of an ancient civilization that might have access to native medicines that has mind boggling properties.
Between the mercenaries, the harsh Amazonian rain forest, and the indigenous natives who are pretty happy with their solitude, this is shaping up to be a pretty harrowing adventure.
Criticisms: Some of the pharmaceutical uses for the plants they find may very well be real, but come across as being fiction. Toward the end of the story there’s a section of the book that requires an active suspension of disbelief.
Wrap-up: Rollins has become one of my favorite authors, in part because of books like this one. A pretty solid story that’s fairly well written and mostly plausible.
Grade: By my arbitrary scale, I give this book a B+.
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