At Play in the Fields of the Lord Author:Peter Matthiessen Coarse, brutal, and elementally powerful...It revives one s faith in the future of fiction. --Chicago Tribune — Inventive and extremely well-written...incredibly moving and disturbing...a remarkable performance. --San Francisco Chronicle — This book, written more than 20 yhears ago, is a classic set in the South American jungle and follows the cl... more »ash between two misplaced gringos--one who has come to convert the Indians to Christianity, and one who has been hired to kill them. Now the basis for a major motion picture.« less
This is one of the best books I have EVER read. Evangelical missionaries go into the jungle to save a savage Indian tribe. The local government is corrupt and there are mercenaries in the mix. I feel like I was there with them!