{"product_id":"the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god-a-true-story-9781455569410","title":"The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVenturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thrillers of \u003cb\u003eDouglas Preston\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eLincoln Child\u003c\/b\u003e \"stand head and shoulders above their rivals\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). Preston and Child's \u003ci\u003eRelic\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cabinet of Curiosities\u003c\/i\u003e were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and \u003ci\u003eRelic\u003c\/i\u003e was made into a number-one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, and their recent novels include \u003ci\u003eBloodless, The Scorpion's Tail, Crooked River, Old Bones\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVerses for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e magazines. Child is a Florida resident and former book editor who has published seven novels of his own, including such bestsellers as \u003ci\u003eFull Wolf Moon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeep Storm\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReaders can sign up for The Pendergast File, a monthly \"strangely entertaining note\" from the authors, at their website, www.PrestonChild.com. The authors welcome visitors to their Facebook page, where they post regularly.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527621349650,"sku":"9781455569410","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_48e76daf-7dc2-46e6-b1f5-6ccd7f609b61.jpg?v=1731308799","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lost-city-of-the-monkey-god-a-true-story-9781455569410","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}