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Dance of the Dwarfs (The Adversary)

✍ Scribed by Household, Geoffrey


Book ID
108141653
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Year
2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
408 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781497698574

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✦ Synopsis


A scientist working alone in the Amazon is drawn by local superstition into a terrifying nightmare of brutality and death
Deep in the heart of darkness, Dr. Owen Dawnay has stumbled across an unimaginable horror. A dedicated agricultural scientist, he has set up a lonely outpost on the outskirts of Colombia's Amazon to study the flora that thrives in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the face of the Earth. It is the odd behavior of the local population, however, that soon captures his interestβ€”their superstitions, their reticence . . . their terrors. Why do the native villagers eschew music and fear the night, huddling behind the walls of their homes after sunset to escape a supposed host of dwarfish evil spirits that emerge from the trees in the evening to dance and feed?
A man of rational science, Dr. Dawnay refuses to believe in the supernatural, yet he finds himself inexorably drawn into a mystery as ancient as the land itself. But...


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