Emerald in the Eye of the Skull Robert Hartley 9781494967291 Books
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Jeb, a lecturer at Harvard, meets a mysterious pilot with a map who is murdered, the eyes sucked out of his skull while he is still alive. Jeb, shaken by the horror and wanting no more of it, is asked by the faculty at Harvard to travel to Colombia in search of ancient emeralds. In an Indian dialect, the map tells of their secret location. A Monster guards this secret for which the eyes of humans are sacrificed. General Junco, his contact person, finds refuge with an obscure woman, while his red-headed wife Lourdes, once a great beauty, is served nightly by a shadow lover. Jeb is provided a house in which to live with a housekeeper, Lucy, who remains strangely distant. His lady back home, Courtney, teaches at Sarah Lawrence. Lola, the beautiful secretary of General Junco, commands his attention, providing a momentary distraction from the horror that awaits him. An assassin has been sent to Colombia by Geneva emerald dealers, who, though leaving many bodies, is never seen. Jeb guesses the source of the Monster's emeralds, a dark rainforest where Indians have been tortured for centuries, and again enslaved and murdered during the nineteen hundreds by the rubber barons, a horror called the Devil's Paradise. Lucy, the housekeeper, follows him. She is caught by thugs and deposited among the rotting corpses to await the sucking out of her eyes. From nowhere, the unseen assassin appears and frees her. She finds Jeb in the rainforest and together they elude the Monster, escape warring Indians, the descendants of those who were tortured, survive an electric eel, avoid the drug lords, and finally fall through the ground into a cave filled with skeletons, and gold-and-emerald artifacts, from which there appears to be no escape. Only after a cruel twist of fate is the shocking truth of this green horror revealed.
Emerald in the Eye of the Skull Robert Hartley 9781494967291 Books
This book is a page-turner from the beginning. The story grabs you and doesn't let go until the final page. It is also a book one learns from - about the incredibly verdant, culturally diverse, and mysterious country of Colombia and the history of emerald stealing and smuggling that has been ongoing since the Spaniards invaded South America. The author's skillful use of vivid imagery gives the story a cinematic quality pulling the reader into each scene whether the locale is a dusty bar in Texas, an elite Harvard boardroom, an Embassy in downtown Bogota, the enveloping rainforest or navigating mountain roads on an old bus full of Indians and chickens. The plot is intriguing and the main characters are fascinating: multi-layered, complex individuals each with his or her own story. Thus there is a BIG mystery to solve - who is committing the heinous crimes and just where are the emeralds hiding? Then there are the characters' personal stories to decipher. There are surprises in store. I highly recommend this book because it is a great read: I am already hoping for another book with some of the same characters. Well done!! Suzanne Barker, psychologist and teacherProduct details
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Emerald in the Eye of the Skull Robert Hartley 9781494967291 Books Reviews
This is a story that's hard to stop reading, and it left me wanting more. Full of interesting characters and exotic scenery. I hope Hartley will be writing future adventures of Jeb.
I thoroughly enjoyed Emerald in the Eye of the Skull. Set in the exotic Columbian locale, the story comes to life with characters vividly developed. From the first chapter, I was totally engaged by the intriguing plot and found the book very hard to put down. I would heartily recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys the well written thriller set in a captivating land.
Judith Dutterer
This book is a page-turner from the beginning. The story grabs you and doesn't let go until the final page. It is also a book one learns from - about the incredibly verdant, culturally diverse, and mysterious country of Colombia and the history of emerald stealing and smuggling that has been ongoing since the Spaniards invaded South America. The author's skillful use of vivid imagery gives the story a cinematic quality pulling the reader into each scene whether the locale is a dusty bar in Texas, an elite Harvard boardroom, an Embassy in downtown Bogota, the enveloping rainforest or navigating mountain roads on an old bus full of Indians and chickens. The plot is intriguing and the main characters are fascinating multi-layered, complex individuals each with his or her own story. Thus there is a BIG mystery to solve - who is committing the heinous crimes and just where are the emeralds hiding? Then there are the characters' personal stories to decipher. There are surprises in store. I highly recommend this book because it is a great read I am already hoping for another book with some of the same characters. Well done!! Suzanne Barker, psychologist and teacher
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