As always, he has done his research! Since "Amazonia" was only his fourth novel, I suspect that he was probably still doing that research himself, rather than hiring a team of experts to do it for him. As an herbalist, I very much appreciate Rollins' investigation into the power of native medicinal herbs. Suffice it to say that they are real-life deadly pathogens.) However, unlike with his previous novels, with "Amazonia," Rollins adds in a couple of timely, apposite environmental/ecological messages: 1) Don't decimate the habitats of our fellow creatures 2) Don't underestimate traditional wisdom. (If you haven't yet heard of prions, you will learn a lot about them here. Also in line with Rollins' other novels, "Amazonia" explores one of Nature's mysteries - in this case: prions. As with all of Rollins novels, "Amazonia" does not lack for thrills or chills. and then some unimaginable ones, as well. Unlike "The Lord of the Rings," however, Amazonia takes place not in Middle Earth, but in the eponymous rain forest and, rather than Orks, these questers face every other kind of creepy, crawly, venomous, wickedly-toothed creature imaginable. At each turn, they face a deadly danger that their inscrutable quarry has cast into their path while behind them stalks an evil hunter out to wrest their prize from their very grasp. "Amazonia" reminds me a little bit of Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings," where a stalwart band of allies sets off on a hopeless mission, against insurmountable odds, to save the world.
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