Jungle of Bones

A billion-dollar biotech company has dispatched armed mercenaries into the Amazon—and they're hunting something that shouldn't exist. Paleoanthropologist Carmen Reyes knows exactly what they're after, because she found it first: a jawbone two million years old, belonging to an unclassified species still breathing in the flooded forest. Now Carmen and her Tikuna guide Joaquim are all that stand between a fragile, ancient people and a corporation determined to turn living history into proprietary genetics. Some discoveries demand more than science—they demand sacrifice.