In the Valley of the Amazons
CHAPTER 1 Damn! Damn! Damn! I hit the damned GPS with the heel of my hand, but it still wouldn’t work. I had tried repeatedly to tell the suits at the main office that we needed better equipment, but those cheap bastards were always looking out for the bottom line—their bottom line, anything to look good to the higher-ups. The fact that our lives were at stake was inconsequential. My requests were always turned down. Now we were stuck in the bloody jungle of Brazil with no idea where we were. You’d think that two PhD’s in Geology, with the responsibility for finding the new deposits of bauxite that would keep the world’s largest manufacturer of aluminum at the top of the hill would be able to get decent equipment, but you’d be wrong. Our …