Women of Thunder by Jerry Craven

By Jerry Craven

In an try and regain a younger innocence, Vietnam Veteran Tom Seal returns to El Tigrito, Venezuela, hoping to discover his adolescence good friend, Rosa Rojas, approximately twenty years after Tom’s kinfolk lower back to the United States.

Tom longs to recreate an experience he and Rosa shared after they have been younger and to come to the “Eden in their adolescence” they'd stumbled upon as children.

But the consequent eighteen years have replaced not just the jungle, however the acquaintances to boot. Departing for the jungle within the wet season, Tom and Rosa try and regain a similar pleasure and happiness that they had skilled such a lot of years in the past, yet in its place they're beset by means of howler monkeys, flesh-eating butterflies, the Jungle humans, and maybe most threatening of all—the ghosts in their personal painful pasts.

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