This novel completes the third jewel in the Triple Crown of jungle insanity. Joseph Conrad’s original Heart of Darkness, followed by Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, this story finishes
the Trifecta. Set in the triple canopy rainforest of Central America, this is a tale of Dark Madness, where the only rules are the Law of the Jungle, and not everything is as it seems.A former
U.S. Army sniper is hired to assassinate a Colombian Cocaine Lord. However, the exact identity of this Kingpin remains unknown; there is no dossier. He is referred to only in shadowed whispers
as: “The Chess Player.”Unarmed, this young man rides a public bus deep into the jungle to a small Caribbean village called Puerto Viejo – the end of the road. First, he breaks into the local
police station and steals three M-16s. Then, he befriends a psychotic Viet Nam Vet, a former member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. The Vet clearly suffers severe PTSD and “never left the
jungle.” This old soldier has the skills to complete the gambit in the jungle. The young man lives in the soldier’s house – only the house is a dilapidated crack house; the Vet, a smuggler and
an addict.The village is also ravaged by a crack cocaine epidemic; the dealers even feed their evil to the local school children to dominate the populace and enforce their control.Repulsed by
this wickedness and against his better tactical judgment, the young man takes action. To solve this problem he gathers empirical information – by hunting the cartel members in the Jungle like
wild animals. Killing in order to discover the true identity of “The Chess Player” and force him into play.
