SavageBlood

ThegrippingnewthrillerbytheauthorofTheFinalDays.TheIslandwithNo-Name,afour-dayeastwardsailfromChennai,and170mileswestoftheTenDegreeChannel,hasbeenbypassedbytheAgeofDiscovery.UnlikeherequallybeautifulsistersinthelushandtropicalApsaranarchipelago,shelackedthenaturalresourcestobeconsideredworthyofexploitationbyBritishorIndiancolonizers,andissurroundedbyasparklingbutimpassablereef.Asaresult,herinhabitants,thelegendarilyviciousandcannibalisticLombetribe,surroundedbytheirownmythologyofdisappearanceanddeath,havebeenpermittedtoremaininthestoneage,infiltratedbyonlythefoolish,themad,andthesoon-to-beslaughtered.Untilnow.UltimatelythreatenedbytheburgeoningrequirementsofnewtourismpossibilitiesintheBayofBengal,EdwardQuinn,ashadyAmericanphilanthropist,wouldseektopreservethetraditionaltribalwayoflifebyconstructingananthropologicalthemeparkontheisland;anecologicallyuniquebutmorallydubiousenterprisedesignedtopermitthesavagestoexistintraditionalfashionwhilstunderinvisiblescrutinyfromwealthyandwell-meaningenvironmentaltourists.UnfortunatelyforQuinn,thesavageswillhaveotherideas.ArichandconsideredmixofJosephConradandMichaelCrichton,andcrammedwiththesamefiendishlyplottedincidentthatcharacterizedAlexChance'sdebutnovelTheFinalDays,SavageBloodwilldefinepostcolonialhorror.