The Amazon Vanishing: A Thriller

A French scientist disappears from a tourist boat on the Amazon. The federal inspector sent to find her is about to discover a network that has been hiding in plain sight for twenty-seven years — and one of its secrets is hers.When Élodie Marchand goes silent on the Solimões River, the French embassy doesn't call the local police. They call Brasília. Within hours, Federal Inspector Marina Vasconcelos is on a flight to Manaus with a single clue: a draft email her supervisor never opened, four words long. I am in over my head.What Marina finds on the river is worse than a missing biologist. It's a gold-mining operation buried deep in the rainforest, a private bank in São Paulo laundering the proceeds, and a sniper on a federal highway killing the people who know too much.Then the case turns personal.Marina's brother Daniel disappeared from a school trip in 2001. The federal search closed without a body. The grief never closed at all.Twenty-three years later, on a Sunday afternoon in São Paulo, Marina opens a briefcase taken from the head of a private bank — and finds the name of the man who took her brother. The same man who killed her mother. The same man who has been laundering money through the same Madeira shell company for twenty-one years.She has eleven days to take down a network that has been operating since before she became a federal officer.She has eleven months before its true architect calls her satellite phone and tells her what he has done with her brother.The Amazon Vanishing is a relentless commercial thriller in the tradition of James Patterson, Daniel Silva, and Don Winslow — set in a Brazil few outsiders have ever read. Read more