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Name of Book: True East Author: Raymond Ahrens ISBN: 978-1-934690-86-4 Publisher: Tasora Type of book: Brazil, anthropology, mysticism, Alice in wonderland, present time, America, swimming, savior, missing spouse, politics Year it was published: 2017 Summary: Katy Givens, thirty and brilliant, learns in a static-filled phone call that her husband Andrew is missing in the Amazon and possibly dead. Although still mourning the death of their infant son, Katy flies to Brazil in search of Andrew, discovering that the man she married has secrets. As the mysteries surrounding Andrew's disappearance mount, so does the list of shadowy forces benefitting from the recent discovery of oil in the Amazon. Katy's field of genetic anthropology proves useful when accounts of the Unnamed Ones, a primitive and possibly pre-human tribe, are rumored to exist in the same valley as the oil reserves. Katy tracks Andrew through the jungle, deciphering riddles he left before disappear...