![]() ![]() ![]() But Merrick is desperate to escape everything at home, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon where a salt line on the ground separates town from forest. ![]() Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who’s made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine-essential for the treatment of malaria-from deep within Peru, he knows it’s a terrible idea. In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg and something is wrong a statue moves, his grandfather’s pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness. ![]()
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