(pb; 1984)
From the back cover
“Quintana Roo means death.
“Ignoring this grim warning, Johnny Hooker plunges deep into the tropical jungle in search of a missing millionaires. And then the horror starts.
“For Quintana Roo means danger from venomous snakes, lethal jaguars, alligator-like caymans—and a thousand different lurking insects.
“Above all, Quintana Roo means the lost city of Iztal, and tales of human sacrifices. . . and walking dead.
“But, as Hooker discovers, the terrifying reality surpasses the worst legends.
“For Quintana Roo means far
worse than death.”
Review
Tribe, a fun, hard-to-set-down jungle adventure novel, set in 1939. It's a relatively fast, sometimes spooky read, with its bar-loving hero (Johnny Hooker) and a few of his adventure-sharing friends facing off against Indios sublevados (rebellious, deep-in-the-jungle and possibly cannibal tribesmen), dysentery and muerateros (undead) and, of course, Nazis.
The prose is tight, its action,
barely-there character development and twists are solid and fun, with its eve-of-WWII
Men’s Adventure inspired storyline. Great subgenre book from a
consistently entertaining writer, both worth reading, possibly owning if you
need to own your thrills.
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