Invalided out of the army Jackson Small returns to England traumatised by theviolent death of his fellow soldier Connolly. Unable to settle andincapacitated by ... » 

Invalided out of the army Jackson Small returns to England traumatised by theviolent death of his fellow soldier Connolly. Unable to settle andincapacitated by grief Jackson sets off on a lunatic quest back to thePeruvian jungle in search of something he cannot even be sure is real the lostcity of La Joya the ancient capital of a vanished empire once glimpsed byConnolly and never forgotten. The city is hidden in the cloud forest that hangsbetween the coppergreen rivers of the Andes and the impenetrable jungle ofAmazonia. The pilgrimage Jackson makes will bring him into contact with worldshe has never before imagined The American patriarch farming in the wildernessa greathearted native priest and the love of his life. But the lethal greendepths of the forest also to conceal other searchers with motives far moresinister and complex than Jacksons. «