Gone Wild

About this book

From James W. Hall the highly acclaimed best-selling author of Hard Aground Mean High Tide and Bones Of Coral comes a stunning and superbly rendered new thriller in which the most deadly animals in the jungle are the ones that kill for money. With one poachers bullet a young womans life is tragically brutally taken--and her mothers is shattered forever. Thus begins Gone Wild James W. Halls electrifying new novel which penetrates the lush sultry jungles of Africa and Malaysia to explore the mercenary slaughter of animals-and to expose the savagery and humanity in us all. Gone Wild brings back Thorn the haunting quixotic hero last seen in the best-seller Mean High Tide. And in a novel filled with the authors signatures exotic locales vise-tightening suspense steamy sexuality hypnotic prose--Hall introduces a bold new element: one of the toughest most complex female characters in modern fiction. Allison Farleighs desperate struggle to save the endangered orangutans from poachers--and to uncover the truth about her daughters murder--give the novel its passion and its fire. And the shocking international conspiracy she exposes in the process gives Gone Wild its relentless heart-pounding tension. A mesmerizing journey into the heart of darkness Gone Wild is one of those rare thrillers that not only makes you sweat--it makes you think.