A pharmaceutical company in Minnesota is funding an eccentric doctor whose research in the Amazon jungle will change women's lives for ever. A letter arrives informing them that an employee, sent to monitor the progress of the centre, has died. His colleague, Marina, determines to find out what happened. So begins a modern-day Heart of Darkness as she enters a secretive world of strange loyalties, mosquito-infected waterways and remote tribes. Dark, atmospheric, and engrossing.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 64 Spring 2012 ) |
