![]() Standing on the deck, he watched the night-black wall of the jungle slip by. Will only wondered how good she was with her Galils and how long she would hesitate before she used them, and whether or not she could manage to protect herself without killing him by accident-and it would be an accident, if she shot him. She just didn't know there had been another price put on her head. Annie Parrish and William Sanchez Travers are both renowned ethnobotanists. She knew the price she was going to pay, if Fat Eddie got a hold of her. T he above may read like the plot of a new comic book or cheezy Saturday afternoon adventure movie, but Glenna McReynolds' River of Eden is far above either of these comparisons, not only in plot, but in characterization. Annie was smart, though, he kept telling himself. ![]() There was no way for Fat Eddie and his half a dozen boatloads of goons not to see the Sucuri once they passed the bend. The Sucuri was tied up in the igapó on the other side of the tree. ![]() “Motoring up the mouth of the tributary in Marcos's gaiola riverboat, Will spotted his landmark, a lupuna tree towering above the rest of the canopy, its crown silhouetted by a waning half-moon. ![]()
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