All I do with my veterinary degree now is remove genitalia.' Influences Now, he's flipped that equation: 'Once a week I spend about eight hours spaying and neutering trapped feral cats for the Sacramento Council of Cats. I started writing during my lunch hour at the clinic-dogs barking, cats meowing-so now I can write anywhere. In the 10 years I ran my own practice, I had three weeks of vacation total. I couldn't get away, that was the biggest thing. I owned my own practice, had 24 employees. In an Auginterview, he told SLM 's Jeannette Cooperman:įor 20 years my paycheck was coming from my veterinary degree and my writing was my hobby, and I thought it would be really cool to flip that around. Soon afterward, he moved to Sacramento, California, where he established his veterinary practice, licensed July 24, 1985. He graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1985 with a doctorate in veterinary medicine (D. His undergraduate work focused on evolutionary biology. He attended Parkway South Junior High School and then graduated from Parkway West High School in Ballwin, Missouri, in 1979. His father worked for Libby's canning plant, his mother was a housewife and mother of seven, and he lived what he likened to a Brady Bunch lifestyle. As madness, fear and horrific death descend upon the second cursed expedition, those still living must confront a power beyond human imagining - one that can for ever alter the world beyond the dark, lethal confines of the Amazon rainforest for better.and for worse.Rollins was born in Chicago. But each step brings the team closer to an ancient, unspoken terror that even the native people dread. As Nate Rand and his party push on into the jungle, they are haunted by a truth: that they are not alone.

For somewhere in the dark, impenetrable depths of Earth's most dangerous region lie mysteries that must be solved.whatever the cost. Now Nate is to follow the elder Rand's trail, along with a team of scientists and experienced US Rangers.

Read more same expedition that took Clark into the jungle. Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and never returned - the. The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm, the other lost to a sniper's bullet. Soon the CIA operative and former Special Forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village. From the author of ALTAR OF EDEN and MAP OF BONES comes another fantastic mystery adventure, this time set deep in the Amazon jungle.

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