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    House of Jaguar
    House of Jaguar
    House of Jaguar
    Audiobook11 hours

    House of Jaguar

    Written by Mike Bond

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 4, 2017
    ISBN9781536674729
    Author

    Mike Bond

    Called "the master of the existential thriller" (BBC), "one of America's best thriller writers" (Culture Buzz) and "one of the 21st century's most exciting authors" (Washington Times), Mike Bond is the author of eight best-selling novels, a war and human rights journalist, ecologist, and award-winning poet. Based on his own experiences in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world, his novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.

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    • 3/5
      Review of eBookOnce upon a time, Joe Murphy served as an evacuation medic in Vietnam; now he smuggles drugs. He’s considering the possibility of this being his last run, but that is a decision made a moment too late.Ambushed by soldiers, his plane destroyed, a wounded Murphy awakens to find himself in a Guatemalan village, a family caring for him. But the government officials are relentless in their search for him.Will Murphy be discovered? And if he is, what will happen to him? =========Set in Guatemala in Central America and based on the author’s own experiences, this well-written, intense narrative is difficult to read. Filled with horrific brutality, the story both powerful and disturbing. Although, at the outset, Murphy might seem to be a “bad” guy; the unfolding story paints him in a different light. With no nuances, the good characters are good while the bad characters are evil and Murphy is quite unlikable. Despite the strong, evocative sense of place, the story is gritty, filled with cartels, deceitful government officials, politics, and, at the other end of the spectrum, people just trying to do the right thing.Recommended, but with this caveat: this far-too-graphic story, filled with atrocities, vividly recounts man’s inhumanity to man. It’s despicable; it’s gruesome . . . made all the more insidious by its cruel veracity.I received a free copy of this eBook from Mandevilla Press and NetGalley#HouseofJaguar #NetGalley
    • 3/5
      Viet Nam war hero Joe Murphy gets shot down in a Guatemalan jungle while smuggling marijuana. From there he gets caught up in the civil war there. Could have done with less violence and bloodshed but I guess considering the nature of the book it is to be expected. Some places in the book are disturbing. It is an ok read but be sure you have a stomach for violence.
    • 2/5
      House of Jaguar starts off perhaps promisingly - at least, to the extent that it seems to be leading up to a major action scene, which is the sort of thing you would expect an action/adventure book to do. There is even the element of surprise lurking, but it lurks with feet of clay.The book focuses primarily on two individuals: Murphy, a Vietnam vet who is now flying marijuana out of Guatemala. Of course, he is the good guy - he gets more "action" (both kinds of the physical type). The other person is Lyman, a U.S. operative assigned to assist Guatemalan military. He is the bad guy - and if you feel unsure about this, about 20% into the book he rapes, tortures and kills (not necessarily in that order) a teen-age girl.Lyman is after Murphy because he believes that Murphy killed a friend of his on his latest drug run; he is also under fire from his superiors because of his unconventional and antagonistic manner of doing business. Murphy is after Dona, the beautiful, sexy, doctor for the Guatemalan rebels (of course) - as well as the Guatemalan soldiers who wiped out the village that sheltered Murphy for a while.Both men are Haunted by their Past Lives. Lyman wants to avenge and destroy his, while Murphy seeks "Redemption."I get the feeling that author Mike Bond conceived of this book as a sequence of action scenes he was impressed with (I bet I know what kind of movies he is into), which is okay - what would an action/adventure story be without action and adventure? The problems are: (1) he does not develop the action sequences as well - maybe as patiently - as he should, and (2) the segues between action scenes are extremely awkward. Mr. Bond knows a few words of Spanish, and he makes sure to pepper the contrived dialogue and erratic narrative with them.Do yourself a favor: wait for someone to be desperate enough to make a movie of this book, wait a bit longer for it to come out on video, wait yet more for it to show up on Netflix. By then you will have forgotten about it, and it will escape notice completely.
    • 1/5
      Perhaps it is the season, but I found this book a real downer. Drug smuggling, Vietnam veteran goes to Central America, gets caught, escapes and return to the States only to expose himself to CIA or whatever clandestine forces are at work with the cartels and governments censure. A true survivor, drug dealer, would never have been that naïve. Ultimately everyone dies; so I guess it qualifies as opera, but not that great a story line. On a positive note, the author does a superior job of painting pictures of the countryside, jungle, prisons, San Francisco, and other place where action occurs, and there’s plenty of action.