Black River, Tom Harper
Black River, Tom Harper
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Black River

Author: Tom Harper

Narrator: Angus King

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2015

Synopsis

This unputdownable Amazonian adventure is perfect for fans of The Lost City of Z. 'The thinking person's Dan Brown' Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth.

When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what they seem. Paramilitaries, drug cartels, and wildcat prospectors all want what the jungle has to offer - while untamed local tribes will fight desperately to protect their way of life. Maps of the region have been doctored. And what exactly happened to the previous expedition, a government vaccination program that went upriver and never returned?

Soon finding the lost city is the least of their troubles. The jungle hides deadly secrets that must be hidden at all costs. And someone in the group wants to make sure they never get out.

(P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton

About Tom Harper

Tom Harper was born in West Germany in 1977 and grew up in Germany, Belgium and America. He studied history at Lincoln College, Oxford, worked for a while in the glamorous world of pensions services, and now writes full time. He lives in York with his wife and two sons. His novels have been sold into twenty languages, from Brazil to China. In 2001 Tom Harper's debut, The Blighted Cliffs, was the runner up for the CWA Debut Dagger Award. He can be found online at www.tom-harper.co.uk.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on July 26, 2022

We were an odd assortment – like the first days of uni, when you make friends indiscriminately and spend the rest of term stuck with your choices. British anaesthetist Kel MacDonald, married with a child of six, is swayed by the charismatic fortune hunter Anton, to take leave-of-absence to join an ex......more

Goodreads review by Manda on September 30, 2015

Tom Harper is one of the most exciting authors of our generation - he straddles the line between literary writing and thrillers in the way Robert Harris used to do before he became too big to bother plotting. Harper writes intelligent, thoughtful, many-layered books. Until recently, most of them hav......more

Goodreads review by Kate on January 03, 2018

Such a fun read - a search for a fabled lost Amazonian city that you know is doomed from the very first page. Interesting bunch of characters, most of whom seem entirely not up to the task ahead, including the narrator, a bored and wealthy English consultant who just wants a bit of adventure in his......more

Goodreads review by Dan on November 19, 2021

What an epic adventure Tom Harper takes us on! Picture this… you are a high-end qualified doctor living a life in London with a wife & child. Your life is full of happiness, financial stability, love a strong future! What would you do if you had the chance to trek into the unknown? Not a trip to an......more

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Crafted with care and intelligence Guardian

'Tom Harper has been writing elaborate thrillers that marry ironclad narrative skills with some of the most elegantly understated writing in the field; he's the thinking person's Dan Brown. Actually, Harper deserves the latter's success -- and more, as Harper is comfortably the better writer.' Barry Forshaw, author of The Rough Guide to Crime Writing.

A flat-out fantastical adventure all the way in a vividly described and wildly exotic setting. Irish Independent

'Harper effortlessly draws the reader into an unfamiliar time, bringing alive the characters and their motivations' Publishers Weekly

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