Book description
Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a
missionary village. Soon the CIA operative and former special forces
soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. 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.
Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and
never returned - the same expedition that took Clark into the jungle.
Now Nate is to follow the elder Rand's trail, along with a team of
scientists and experienced US Rangers. For somewhere in the dark,
impenetrable depths of Earth's most dangerous region lie mysteries that
must be solved ... whatever the cost. As Nate Rand and his party push on
into the jungle, they are haunted by a truth: that they are not alone.
But each step brings the team closer to an ancient, unspoken terror that
even the native people dread. 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 is the author of numerous
bestselling novels. An amateur spelunker and scuba enthusiast, he holds
a doctorate in veterinary medicine from the University of Missouri. He
currently lives and writes in Sacramento, California.
