内容简介：
Collins, Mike and James are three friends at Brimrose Academy, a boarding school in a remote area of Northern Mississippi. While working together on the school newspaper, they decide to write a short story for a popular detective magazine. When the story is published, their trouble begins. Mike, whose father is a mob boss, does most of the writing of the short story. When it is discovered that most of the story contains sensitive information about a rival mob family, the boys must all flee the country. While fleeing the country, the boys end up in the most primitive areas of the Brazilain rainforest, and encounter numerous dangers: snakes, leeches, and wild animals, though none so deadly as the human predators who hunt them.