Last Place God Made

By Jack Higgins

Book Overview

An action-packed adventure set in the unforgiving and uncharted Amazon from the New York Times -bestselling author of The Midnight Bell . Neil Mallory thought life was interesting as a bush pilot, flying mail and supplies around the Amazon rain forest. Then, after a bad crash, his life was saved by Capt. Sam Hannah, who all but hijacked him as a junior partner in what could barely be called a business. Only then did life get really interesting. Flying to and from the darkest corners of the savage jungle, the motley pair thinks they've seen everything . . . until they discover a field covered with the bodies of dead missionaries riddled with the arrows of the dreaded Huna tribe. The Huna, who have no love for encroaching "civilization," are not to be trifled with. But as luck would have it, Mallory and Hannah soon find themselves drawn into the search for two missing nuns the natives have taken. The ensuing hunt will pit them against the Huna, the dangers of the Amazon, and even each other in a bloody fight for survival more brutal and unrelenting than either could have imagined--even in their nightmares. Before The Eagle Has Landed catapulted him to international fame, Jack Higgins was already writing incredible tales of suspense and action set around the globe--including this thrilling, old-school adventure that will grab readers from the first page and not let them go without a fight.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451140028
• ISBN13: 9780451140029
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Would have made a good movie

British pilot Neil Mallory would have crashed into the South American jungles on his Vega plane and ended his life had it not been for a coincidental appearance of Sam Hannah in another plane who guided him to a landing spot in the wilderness.Brought to remote town of Manaus, Neil had his money and passport stolen. He avoided being pressed into work-gangs only when taking employment under Sam as a pilot. Neil wanted to go home, and this seemed to be the only way.But nothing was certain in the jungle.Sam Hannah was one person who could be a hero one moment and the devil the next.Slowly, Neil found himself getting more and more involved in the local problems. Huna natives had massacred a missionary outpost. Neil found himself tangled in the official response, and in two women, one a missionary determined to revive the mission, the other in search of her missing sister who was a nun at the mission.Set in the lush jungles where humans had to live like animals to survive, Jack Higgins painted a very lively action with colourful characters. Each have a different raison d'etre, and for some, surviving was not one.

Another Pleaser

Mr. Higgins can write in less pages and enter greater action and background than most writers can in double the pages. This book not only gives the real feel of the South American jungle, but it attributes to the competivness of man with a women tied in. There is no doubt in my mind of his ability and I will someday have read all of his books. This is now my twenty third.

One of the very best!!

Set in the South American jungle, in an age that seems so long ago, Jack Higgins describes the adventures of two men and a lady. Fighting for survival, in romantic but very deadly surroundings, these very colorful and very real characters star in one of Higgins' older, but nonetheless better novels,