Amazonia: James Rollins

A government agent stumbles out of the world's most inhospitable jungle - mutilated and terrified - and is dead within hours. Agent Clark had been part of a research expedition that went missing in the rainforest years earlier. Most bizarrely, he went in with one arm missing ... and emerged with both intact. The CIA wants Dr Nathan Rand to join Operation Amazonia - a venture set up to discover the fate of the missing crew. Nate has made the forest his home and knows the territory like the back of his hand. But his interest is far more personal: it was his father who led the lost expedition. But this impenetrable place hides ancient, unspoken terrors - and a power beyond human imagining that could alter the world for ever ...