We Eat Our Own

✍ Scribed by Wilson, Kea

• Book ID: 109336583
• Publisher: Scribner
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 282 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781501128318

✦ Synopsis

An ambitious, stunning debut novel by an original young writer blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon--a place that holds deep, dark secrets of its own.
When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he doesn't hesitate: he flies to Colombia, no questions asked. He quickly realizes he's made a mistake. He's replacing another actor who quit after seeing the script--a script the director now claims doesn't exist. The movie is over budget. The production team seems headed for a breakdown. The air is so wet that the celluloid film disintegrates.

But what the actor doesn't realize is that the greatest threat might be the town itself, and the mysterious shadow economy that powers this remote jungle outpost. Entrepreneurial Americans, international drug traffickers, and M-19 guerillas are all fighting for...