Counterflood, by Thackeray, Kit
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Counterflood, by Thackeray, Kit. William Morrow: New York, 1979. Edition: First US Edition, stated with full number line. ISBN: 0688035795. Hardcover, 8vo, 218 pages. Quarter bound in cream cloth over green boards; gilt lettering on spine

Condition: Near Fine in a Very Good jacket. Top page edges lightly speckled. Jacket has a very small amount of chipping at uppe spine end and is lightly worn at margins.

Contents: Publisher's Note:

After helping a dying prospector in the diamond country of Brazil, Kees Kuyter finds himself in the midst of a situation as bizarre as it is harrowing. The immediate consequences of his meeting with the old man are a cache of uncut diamonds and the enchanting Noelia, who shares his life with a passion as intense as it is brief -- for suddenly she is dead and their fortune has disappeared.

Kees begins a desperate search for the diamonds which leads him to an unscrupulous surgeon and then to a paranoiac actor working in a film aboard a restored Amazon River steamer. Getting work with the film crew, Kees becomes the unwitting victim of a power play, responsible for a handful of men and women deep in the jungles of the Amazon River basin. Roughly severed from their comfortable and secure places in life, these people are stripped of all pretense and their true characters are revealed -- the selfish and the selfless, the greedy and the considerate, the weak and the strong. There are violent deaths, subterfuge, and nerve-racking tension building to a climactic conclusion as Kees and his companions are beset by pursuers, internal strife, and the jungle itself.