Lazaro: 7 books

His missionary father dies in the jaws of a giant Amazon boa. At age four he sees his mother from the Waika people raped and murdered by Colombian drug traders who hurl the orphan boy into the upper Rio Negro. A fresh water dolphin grieving the loss of her own baby rescues him and noses him to shore....

A university student now, Lazaro, the former feral child raised by Amazon dolphins and "rescued" back to civilization, wanders the Andean ranges and comes upon the last remnants of the Inca empire. For 500 years the ayllu, the clan, has adhered to the final command of the Supreme Inca and...

A First Nations warrior group in Canada hacks into Native funds around the world. They use the stolen money to buy from Russian mafia a stock of highly refined inhalational anthrax, a WMD transferred from Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein. But things go catastrophically awry. The lethal endospores are...

Inama Meena is a dalit, an untouchable born to be spurned by the rest of Indian society, bound by a belief that he earned this life of lowly drudgery in a previous incarnation. He immigrates to Canada and works as a street cleaner. Can a person so warped of spirit resurrect himself in the "land...

She is a gift woman, 13,000 years ago, a captive woman available to any man in her owning tribe. Her sole friend is a caged bear cub due to be sacrificed to tribal gods. But she releases it back to the Arctic wilds of Beringia. Exiled into the polar winter, she crawls into a cave and her voyage to self-awareness begins.

Diagnosed with incurable Alzheimer's Disease, Mel begs her husband to help end her life before she declines into "some sort of stinking, paranoid vegetable". For Maury, it brings the most wrenching crisis in their twenty-eight years together. But medically assisted suicide is deemed murder...

Undercover Conservation Officer Daniel North returns from a fishing trip to testify in the trial of a man smuggling endangered gyrfalcons at $100,000 a bird to royal Saudi falconers. In his house, Daniel finds his mentor and hero, Bruce Manley of Montana, savagely murdered. Released on bail that same...