House of Jaguar

Name: House of Jaguar
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Mike Bond
ISBN: 9781536674729

Author: Mike Bond

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/04/2017

Categories: Fiction, Political

Synopsis

A tense, dangerous thriller of CIA operations in Latin America, guerrilla wars, drug flights, environmental catastrophes and genocides. Shot down over the Guatemalan jungle with a planeload of marijuana, Vietnam veteran Joe Murphy gets caught up in the country's brutal Civil War, and in 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. He is healed by guerrilla doctor Dona Villalobos, falls in love with her and tries to save her from the War's widening horror of insanity, tragedy, and death. Based on the author's personal experience as a human rights and war journalist in Guatemala.

About Mike Bond

Mike Bond is a bestselling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist, award-winning poet, and international energy expert. 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 vagaries of politics and multinational corporations, and the magical beauty of the vanishing natural world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sherry

“We’re back in Guatemala.” “When we get out this time, I’m going to bag it too.” But they waited one trip too long and Murphy’s life as a pilot flying marijuana from Guatemala to the States is over. I’m not going into everything that is in the blurb, but I do remember hearing a lot about the CIA, the......more

Goodreads review by Michelle Only Wants to Read

3.5 Having spent my youth in Guatemala during the time this book is set, I had a personal interest in reading this story. I wanted to love it. It had much potential, but I didn't. The detailed description of the Mayan jungle was lovely but could've been trimmed. For about 50% of the book, I just want......more

Goodreads review by So, I Read This Book Today

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. – Annie Lennox Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. – Winston Churchill I read......more

Goodreads review by Greg

Journalist Hunted by Guatemalan Death Squads Based on the Actual Experiences of Author Mike Bond House of Jaguar is a novel that will be hard to put away once you start reading. Author Mike Bond uses real life adventures as a journalist, caught in the middle of one of the most bloody civil wars in mod......more