Gold in the Shadow
Michael Marcotte
ISBN: 0-595-90414-7
Writer's Club Press/iUniverse.com




The setting of "Gold in the Shadow" is exotic, fraught with the natural
dangers of dense South American jungles luring daredevil thrill seekers
and fearless explorers. Some regions of these rainforests have yet to be
discovered despite modern technologies and satellite tracking, and many
expeditions who have dared to try never returned. Here lies real
mystery. What happened to those expeditions? Could they have been killed
by descendants of Inca Indians, who centuries ago escaped plundering
Spaniards and rebuilt great stone cities in the heart of the rainforests
to preserve their immense wealth? Is the similarity between Egyptian
hieroglyphs on a Moroccan map and Peruvian petroglyphs evidence that
ancient Egyptians carried their pharaohs' riches on boats that crossed
the Atlantic to a secret burial underground in the Amazon Basin where
they hid these treasures from grave robbers looting the great pyramids?

Author Michael Marcotte teases his readers with these notions of lost
treasures and historical puzzles -- a winning mix that only a writer
with his scientific knowledge could use to create an adventure that is
so plausible and heart-stopping you can't put the book down. Instead of
pitting man alone against nature, however, he introduces Rachel, a
short, slim, under-30 anthropologist and linguist with mismatching eye
color. She is a heroine who is easy to like, and from the beginning, the
perceived underdog. She's courageous, smart and honest, yet refreshingly
vulnerable. Her only reason for flying to Peru is to find her lost twin
brother, a pilot whose cargo plane has crashed near the border of
Bolivia. Once she arrives in Cuzco, an unscrupulous treasure hunter
dupes her into believing that he will help her find her brother's downed
plane if she joins his expedition as his interpreter. In the
perilous journey to follow, this man's greed endangers everyone, and
only Rachel's knowledge of ancient myths and native legends helps her
unlock the secret to their survival.

In his debut novel, Michael Marcotte proves he is a master storyteller
more credible than Clive Cussler. His authentic characters and details
bring his exciting tale to life, and like an ancient fable, the reader
comes away with a far greater gift than the gold relics sought in his
adventure story. It is the wisdom found in "Gold in the Shadow."

~Bonnie Toews, author of Treason & Triumph
http://www3.sympatico.ca/bonnie.toews/



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