内容简介:
Tony Torson, author of Fundamental Error and Cicero's Progeny, presents this supernatural thriller amid the shambles of the drug war.At a Border Patrol stakeout, a portly suspect leads Mary Rostelli, a cast-off DEA agent, on a punishing six-mile chase and drops dead. Mary discovers a hybrid coca leaf producing unbelievable endurance and joins a secret DEA mission to Isquitos, Peru. Although a down-to-earth person, she dreams of a massive mountain storm with lightening striking an ancient wall, a harmless organism escaping from an upper world and mutating into a killer wind. The team enters Peru as observers. Rumors abound of victims devoured by a colorful wind. The coca growers race to exchange plants for two hundred million. Deadly surveillance claims two agents, untrained in jungle warfare. Headquarters discounts the Shining Path terrorists as a threat. Heightening the tension and misgivings, agents, growers and guerrillas mingle evenings at a roadhouse amid sparking attractions. The supernatural wind descents, killing surrounding forces. Facing a possible human extinction event, Mary, the surviving agents, growers and guerrillas pursue a dangerous journey up river.