He takes the letter – if two paragraphs on an aerogramme counts as a letter – to his unacknowledged lover and long-term colleague of Eckman, Marina Singh. Jim Fox is the personification of the drugs company. After all it was them that had sent him down to the Brazilian Amazon to find the enigmatic and evasive Dr Annik Swenson, and more precisely find out exactly how she was getting on with developing the drug that was costing the firm so much of their research budget. This flimsy piece of paper was delivered to Eckman's employers. The news has been delivered in the form an aerogram – remember those blue paper-cum-envelope things we used to use to write to foreign pen-pals when the notion of befriending a person you'd never met in a foreign country still seemed exotic? Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012Īnders Eckman is dead. Summary: Perfectly pitched Amazonian adventure – lyrical, menacing, scientifically feasible.
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