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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mike BondPublisher: Big City Press Imprint: Big City Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9781949751147ISBN 10: 1949751147 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 06 March 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsA riveting thriller of murder, politics, and lies. - London Broadcasting Tough and tense thriller. - Manchester Evening News (UK) A terrifying depiction of one man's battle against the CIA and Latin American death squads. - BBC A high-octane story rife with action, from U.S. streets to Guatemalan jungles. - Kirkus Outstanding and entertaining... Intriguing, exciting, captivating, sexy... absolutely incredible... a great thriller. - NetGalley Vicious thriller of drugs and revolution in the wilds of Guatemala, with the adventurer hero, aided by a woman doctor, facing a crooked CIA agent. - Liverpool Daily Post (UK) A riveting story where even the good guys are bad guys, set in the politically corrupt and drug infested world of present-day Central America. - Middlesborough Evening Gazette (UK) Based upon Bond's own experiences in Guatemala. With detailed descriptions of actual jungle battles and manhunts, vanishing rain forests and the ferocity of guerrilla war, House of Jaguar also reveals the CIA's role in both death squads and drug running, twin scourges of Central America. - Newton Chronicle (UK) Grips the reader from the very first page. An ideal thriller for the beach, but be prepared to be there when the sun goes down. - Herald Express (UK) Author InformationM I K E B O N D is the author of nearly a dozen best-selling novels, a war and human rights journalist, ecologist, international energy expert and award-winning poet. He has been called the master of the existential thriller (BBC), one of America's best thriller writers (Culture Buzz), a nature writer of the caliber of Matthiessen (WordDreams), and one of the 21st Century's most exciting authors (Washington Times). He has covered wars, revolutions, terrorism, military dictatorships and death squads in the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Africa, and environmental issues including elephant poaching, habitat loss, wilderness survival, whales, wolves and many other endangered species. His novels place the reader in intense experiences in the world's most perilous places, in dangerous liaisons, political and corporate conspiracies, wars and revolutions, making readers sweat with [their] relentless pace (Kirkus) in that fatalistic margin where life and death are one and the existential reality leaves one caring only to survive. (Sunday Oregonian). He has climbed mountains on every continent and trekked more than 50,000 miles in the Himalayas, Mongolia, Russia, Europe, New Zealand, North and South America, and Africa. For film, translation or publication rights, or for interviews contact: Meryl Moss Media meryl@merylmossmedia.com or 203-226-0199 www.MikeBondBooks.com Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |