The Dolphin People

About this book

Shortly after the end of WWII sixteen-year-old Erich Linden and his family have fled Germany and joined Erichs uncle Klaus in Venezuela where they will begin a new life. But en route to Klauss outpost further inland they encounter a storm and their plane crashes in the middle of the jungle. Stranded deep within Amazonia with no hope of rescue they are discovered by the Yayomi a violent and superstitious Stone Age tribe. The Yayomi believe the strangelooking foreigners are freshwater dolphins in human formand the Lindens believe that as long as they can keep up the bizarre ruse theyll be safe. But the jungle is a dark mysterious place and no place for a family of sham dolphin-people who are ultimately left with only two choices: to escape or to die trying.