I don't know how this author can write so well on so many different subjects. Dr. Marina Singh is a pharmaceutical researcher from Minnesota who goes to the jungle in the Amazon to retrieve the remains of her fellow researcher who has died under mysterious circumstances. The lead researcher, Dr. Annick Swenson, who has been in the Amazon for seven years must be located first. Dr. Swenson is a well known gynecologist who is not only eccentric but difficult to find since she lives in the depth of the jungle doing her research. The book is full of such vivid descriptions of what life in the Amazon is like; the heat, humidity, the mosquitoes, snakes. Yet, the tribes that live there have such an appreciation and respect for nature. I like books that provoke me to think about the ethics of research and where it all leads and this story has left me with plenty to think about! ~Cindy