1914. Brazil's Rio da Duvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and the other members of the now-ravaged Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition are traveling deeper and deeper into the jungle. When Kermit and Teddy are kidnapped by an Amazonian tribe, the great hunters are asked one thing in exchange for their freedom: find and kill a beast that has never been seen.
"Bayard has written a riveting thriller and psychological study wrapped around historical events and people and gives the reader a real existential puzzle to put together."
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"An edge-of-your-seat thriller with all the twists and turns of an unexplored river, Roosevelt's Beast is also something greater: a triumphant proof that the truths of art can surpass those of history."
Kermit Roosevelt III, author and great-great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt
"Louis Bayard's gift is to seamlessly merge careful research with the fantastic, the horrible, the sublime, and the universal. Roosevelt's Beast is an adventure story in the grand style, from a time when the rivers of the Amazon jungle were as unmapped as the depravity of the human heart - had Kipling ever turned his mind to the horror genre beyond short stories, this gripping novel might have bee
