The deadliest animal in the
jungle is the two legged kind.
Nina Truman is a missionary nurse, serving
in a tiny Guatemalan town not far from the Mexican border. It’s a fulfilling
life, tending to the village poor, a way to serve in the country from which she
was adopted. The day she leaves on furlough, is the day her life falls apart. Her
bus is ambushed and she must flee from forces who inexplicably wish her dead. Trapped
between a ruthless drug lord and his assassins, a corrupt police chief, and colleagues
with ulterior motives, her friends may prove just as deadly as her enemies as she
uncovers a plot tangled deep in the roots of her own past.
Nina’s only hope
of survival lies in the hands of Shaw Wilder, a man who despises missionaries and
the God they serve. His skill is in handling a landmine detection dog, not
helping a woman he blames for the death of his sister. When the lethal drug kingpin
El Escorpion seeks to capture Nina, and the local police are no help, Shaw has to
choose: flee into the Guatemalan jungle with a naive woman who has vowed never to
take a life or follow his own spiritual demons and walk away. His choice may leave
them both imprisoned in a jungle from which neither will escape.
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