The Vivero Letter, by Desmond Bagley
By Peter on Feb 22, 2010 in Desmond Bagley, Excellent book, bestseller, book review
The Vivero Letter is an extremely fast paced 
thriller by the British thriller master Desmond Bagley that was turned into a great movie with the same name. All of the characters are believable, and the descriptions of the locations are so vivid that they place you firmly into the middle of the action.
Jeremy Wheale’s very well-ordered life is suddenly torn apart when his brother is murdered by a mob hit man, whose bait was a family heirloom – a sixteenth-century gold tray. The trail takes Wheale from Devon to Mexico and the wild tropical rain forests of Yucatan.
In dense jungle, he helps two archaeologists locate the rest of a fabled hoard of gold – a treasure from Uaxuanoc, the centuries-old lost city of the Mayas. But his brother’s enemies, the Mafia, are hot on Wheale’s trail, and with them are the Chicleros, a vicious band of convict mercenaries. And Wheale is in a difficult spot where it seems nobody can be trusted – perhaps not even his two archeologist friends?
The Vivero Letter is a truly extraordinary adventure tale that will make you bite your nails!


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