House of Jaguar

by Mike Bond

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Pub Date 25 Nov 2013 | Archive Date 07 May 2023

Mandevilla Press

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

Over the jungle with a planeload of marijuana, Vietnam War hero Joe Murphy gets caught up in the brutal Guatemalan Civil War when he witnesses an attack on a Mayan village by the Guatemalan Army and its CIA ""advisors"". Badly injured, he escapes on a nightmare trek through the jungle, hunted by the Army, the CIA, and death squads.

Healed by guerrilla doctor Dona Villalobos, he falls in love with her and tries to save her from the war’s widening horror of insanity, tragedy, and death. Caught in the crucible of violence and love, he learns the peaks and depths the human heart can reach, and what humans will do for, and to, each other. Based on the author's own experiences as one of the last foreign correspondents left alive in Guatemala after over 100 journalists had been killed by army death squads.

A Note From the Publisher

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bestselling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist and award-winning poet, Mike Bond was one of the last foreign journalists left alive in Guatemala after over 100 journalists had been killed by Army death squads. He has lived and worked in many dangerous, remote and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister machinations of international politics and multinational corporations, and the irreplaceable beauty of the vanishing natural world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bestselling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist and award-winning poet, Mike Bond was one of the last foreign journalists left alive in Guatemala...

Advance Praise

“A riveting thriller of murder, politics, and lies.” − London Broadcasting

“Tough and tense thriller.” − Manchester Evening News (UK)

“A high-octane story rife with action, from U.S. streets to Guatemalan jungles … Not surprisingly, the novel ends with a shock, one that might have a few readers gasping.” – Kirkus

“A terrifying depiction of one man’s battle against the CIA and Latin American death squads.” – BBC

“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)

“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)