![]() ![]() But Merrick is eager to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon. When the India Office recruits him for an expedition to fetch quinine-essential for the treatment of malaria-from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. In 1859, ex–East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that almost cost him his leg. burnishes her reputation as a gifted storyteller" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). An Indie Next Pick Now in paperback, Natasha Pulley's "witty, entrancing novel. ![]()
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