Hell and Gone

Publisher Marketing: In the upper reaches of the Amazon River system a mammoth dam called O Ecuador has been built to harness a wild tributary of the Rio Negro. That, at least, is its stated purpose. In the process it will flood a mountain valley where an elusive tribe of feared headhunters called the Kuru still live in utter isolation. Even FUNAI, the Brazilian Indian affairs bureau knows virtually nothing about them. Millions have been spent to construct the dam. Billions in gold are at stake. Jim Malloy is an American pilot on the run from U. S. federal agents working as a cargo hauler to a logging firm on the other side of the mountains from Cannibal Valley. His meeting and subsequent rescue of a Kuru boy sets up a chain of events which rapidly spins out of his control. Before he knows it, Malloy is being coerced into flying a team of U. N. inspectors to the dam site. He refuses, because he senses they're unlikely to return. But when a beautiful FUNAI representative thinks Malloy is the man for the job and Malloy's only friend, a hulking Polish giant named Wall who believes there's a fortune to be had in the going, makes it unanimous, he agrees. They are all three of them right. Malloy is the man for the job. There's a fortune waiting for those who can find it. And none of them are supposed to make it out of Cannibal Valley alive. Contributor Bio:  Forbes, Steve Steve Forbes is coauthor of the "New York Times" bestseller "Power Ambition Glory" and the "Wall Street Journal" bestseller "How Capitalism Will Save Us". Forbes is Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, which publishes "Forbes" magazine, with a circulation of nearly one million readers. Combined with "Forbes Asia", "Forbes Europe", and the company's licensee editions, the magazine reaches close to 6 million global readers. Forbes.com reaches 65 million unique monthly visitors; Forbes websites include Forbes.com, RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.com, RealClearSports.com, and RealClearWorld.com. Elizabeth Ames is a communications executive, speaker and author. She has written two previous books with Steve Forbes, "How Capitalism Will Save Us" and "Freedom Manifesto".