Hilary Kelly receives an invitation to be in her best friend's
wedding and Lou Malloy decides that it would be best if he went
with her. Their destination is Manaus, Brazil on the edge of
Amazonia. Hilary is excited to see her friend, Maria Batista, only
to learn that all is not well when one of Maria's servants, Davi,
show up to enlist the aid of Hilary Kelly and Lou Malloy to drive
out the people trying to take over his Mistresses plantation. When
Hilary learns that her friend's fiance has been killed and she has
been forced to vacate her family's plantation where they have lived
since the late 1800s. Helping Hilary's friend would seem simple
enough for Lou Malloy, except he has to fight a corporate buyer by
the name of Henrich Jergins, hungry for land along the Rio Negro
River to add to an abandoned city where Jergins wants to create a
new Germany. Then there is the ruthless outlaw known as El Machete,
who likes to kill his prisoners by removing their heads. To mix
things up, there is a dangerous tribe of Indians who make shrinking
heads into an art form. Hilary is determined to help her friend and
enlists Malloy to figure out the best way to do that. While in
Manaus, Malloy meets the inscrutable Dondi Arterio, who is actually
a spy for Max's Homeland Security Organization and a Major in the
Brazilian Secret Service, ABIN, but brings a lot of skills when it
comes to surviving in the jungle. However, the solutions appear
limited for Malloy. He has to somehow save Hilary's friend from
being killed by two killers as well as fight off two eco-terrorists
who want to prevent the settlement of the rainforest at all costs.
When Malloy learns that the area was frequented by group of Vikings
when he reads an old diary about their exploits and that there is a
lost city in the mountain area of Brazil known as the Twin
Mountains. There he meets the leader of the Airomar Indians, who
looks more like a Viking than any Indian Malloy has ever met
before. In addition to these minor details, there is an animal
called the Blue Cat that acts as a vigilante of one removing
dangerous people and showing up at the right time and then
disappearing. And if that is not enough a Hitler want-to-be shows
up to claim his legacy and Malloy learns that he may hold the
secret to a hundred million in gold taken from German coffers and
removed to Brazil by the Germans just before the end of World War
Two. It is this gold that Max Reynolds now wants to get back as
well as prevent this Nazi want-a-be from creating more political
damage than he already has. Max thinks that the new Hitler my not
be new at all, but the old Hitler in a new skin. If that is the
case and word gets out that the real Hitler has survived the war,
world turmoil will occur. Max's instructions are to make sure that
does not happen. However, first the team of Malloy and company has
to battle a horde of blood thirsty savages lead by a Chief who
never saw a head that he didn't want to shrink. As the war rages
on, Malloy fights the chief assassin, known as the Black Sword, to
the death. Hired by the Germans to kill Hilary' friend, Maria
Batista, Hilary and Malloy seek to prevent the Germans from getting
control of Maria's plantation and the hundred million in gold. To
help him in his effort, in addition to Hilary Kelly, Malloy has
enlisted the support of Crusher and Jeremy and even Max Reynolds
gets into the action. Following every avenue he can think of,
Malloy and Max and forty of their closest friends descend on a lost
city carved deep into the side of a mountain by the Germans during
World War Two that is more an underground fortress than a city. The
man, who now calls himself Adolf Hitler, returns to remove the gold
and return to Germany victorious again and return Germany to its
glory days of old. One thing that the new Hitler didn't count on
was the presence of the Blue Cat. A beast with paws the size of pie
plates, the would-be Hitler doesn't escape the grasp of the Blue C
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
A Lou Malloy Crime, 3 |
Release date: |
December 2013 |
First published: |
December 2013 |
Authors: |
J. Frank James
|
Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
314 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4928-2683-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4928-2683-9 |
Barcode: |
9781492826835 |
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