High Andes: Wylie Cypher Fights His Way Across The White Mountains Of Peru With His Daughter, Mercy, To Protect A Vital International Secret. ... Pachamama, A Child Mummy, And The Cia.

This is the third book in the Wylie Cypher series. In it, Wylie, suffering from a mid-life crisis, decides to challenge fading youth by taking a trekking vacation across the Cordillera Blanca (White Mountains) of the High Andes in Peru with his daughter, Mercy, just graduated from college. It is 1981. While working with legal clients in Lima, he inadvertently acquires documents that contain explosive and damning evidence about the Peruvian government's extreme interrogation techniques. He learns that something is amiss when police detain and torture him. He loses his little toe. A series of misunderstandings precipitate a heart-pounding chase across the high mountains as two sets of villains - government thugs and members of the communist guerrilla Sendero Luminoso - seek out the Cypher group with murderous intent. Combat in the thin air of the mountains, deceptions of numerous sorts, hairbreadth escapes, torture, action in underground caves populated with mummies, and unexpected plot twists fill the pages of this book.It is in the United States' national interest to observe the growing communist threat in its hemisphere, so C.I.A. agents are involved. While Wylie and his cohorts are running for their lives, the author also reports on international smuggling of historical artifacts, the fate of a 600-year-old child mummy, and the ancient spirit of the mountains, Pachamama. Themes examined are: how a dysfunctional government and an increasing gap between rich and poor lead to anarchy; don't screw with Mother Nature; and there's nothing like being tortured and shot at to overcome a mid-life crisis.

• | Author: Rolf Margenau
• | Publisher: Frogworks Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 26, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0988231131
• | ISBN-13: 9780988231139