They came for a jaguar. The jungle has no intention of letting them leave.
Ciro should have said no. But Marco is paying, and Alma-Marco's woman, the one Ciro never got over-is going too. So he joins the illegal trophy hunt deep in the Peruvian Amazon, with a loyal hired hand and a tracker nobody really knows.
Past the last river town, the jungle goes silent. No birds. No insects. Only red flowers that turn toward them as they pass, and a sweetness in the air that gets under the skin.
One by one, the hunters begin to change. And the tracker leading them deeper has his own reasons for bringing them here.
Deep Undergrowth is a brutal novel of body horror and survival in the Amazon. For fans of Scott Smith's The Ruins and Jack Ketchum.
Content warning: graphic violence, gore, body horror and sexual content.