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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction “with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller”(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization...
Author
Series
Event Group thrillers volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Major Jack Collins, the head of a top-secret government agency dedicated to solving the mysteries of the past, ventures into the Amazon in search of Inca gold and the legendary predator that will destroy anyone threatening to expose the dark secret of the Incas.
Language
Deutsch
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A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip.
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