Counterflood

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KIT THACKERAY
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.... Tovább

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KIT THACKERAY
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 (continued on back flap)
(continued from front flap) tension building to a climactic conclusion as Kees and his companions are beset by pursuers, internal strife, and the jungle itself.
Written with intimate knowledge of the frontiers of Brazil and with an eye for vivid, sensuous detail, Counterflood is storytelling in the grand tradition.
Kit Thackeray is a British cameraman/director. The unique opportunities for travel that this profession has offered have enabled him to gather the background material for Counter-flood. During six months filming on productions set in Brazil, one a BBC program called Up the Amazon, he traveled the length of the river and spent some time living on a huge cattle ranch on the western fringes of the Mata Grosso. "It was," he recalls, "one of the most invigorating experiences of my life. There is just no substitute for personal experience when it comes to writing. You owe it to the public to get it right, and the only way to do that is to go and see for yourself."
Thackeray once spent three months filming with George Adamson and his lions in Kenya. He has followed the routes of the Hudson Bay pioneers from Scotland to Greenland and on to Churchill, Canada, in an antique sixty-five-foot trawler. One of his documentaries deals with the large-scale export of big game from Uganda.
Single, age thirty-three, Thackeray lives in the Dordogne, a department of southwestern France. His first novel, Crownbird, was published in Britain in 1976.
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