ASPIRING
JOURNALIST SWEPT INTO HIGH PROFILE MURDER MYSTERY IN THE AMAZON
"Victoria Griffith’s debut novel is a
triumph! Amazon Burning is a spellbinding tale of love, intrigue, and murder
set in the imperiled Amazon rainforest. A young woman’s coming of age story is
deftly woven into this vast ecological conflict, as indigenous tribes struggle
to defend their land against the loggers, ranchers, and miners who are
destroying it. A nonstop thrill ride that will leave you wanting more."
--Courtney
Farrell, author of Enhanced
Astor + Blue
Editions is proud to present, Amazon Burning [ISBN: 978-1-
938231-94-0 (paperback); New Adult/ Romance/ Fiction; US $12.95; 338 pages; Pub
Date: October, 2014 (paperback)], a debut young adult novel by Victoria
Griffith. In this page- turner, Griffith
weaves a suspense- action thriller centered on coming of age in a tangled web
of romance, mystery, and chaos in the Amazon.
When
22-year-old aspiring journalist, Emma Cohen, is forced to flee the comforts of
her NYU student life, she maneuvers an internship from her father at his
newspaper in Rio de Janeiro.
There, Emma is immediately swept into a major news story--and a life-threatening
situation--when a famous jungle environmentalist, Milton Silva, is mysteriously
murdered.
Emma
must now enter the Amazon rainforest with her father to investigate; both awed
by the enormity and beauty of the Amazon, and appalled by its reckless
destruction. Not only will Emma have to brave the primal world of
the Amazon, she must fight to survive the kidnappers, villains, corrupt
activists, and indigenous tribes that lay in wait along the ever-twisting trail
of the murder case. Stretched to the brink, it’s up to Emma, her father
and the dreamy news photographer, Jimmy, to unravel the mystery and live to
tell the tale.
Amazon Burning by Victoria
Griffith is a spectacular debut Young Adult novel. Griffith's powerful
rendering of the Amazon rainforest forms the perfect, wildly exotic backdrop
for this extraordinary tale of a young urban woman coming of age in the midst
of intense conflict.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Victoria
Griffith is the author of the award winning non-fiction
picture book The Fabulous Flying Machines
of Alberto Santos-Dumont (Abrams, 2011), which won numerous awards,
including the prestigious Parents’ Choice.
The book was recently translated into Portuguese for the Brazilian market and
was also released in audio book version.
Before becoming a full-time author, Victoria spent twenty years as an international journalist, fifteen of those years as foreign correspondent for the UK’s Financial Times. During that time, she had fun writing on a wide range of topics, including Brazil’s Yanomami Indians, architecture, space exploration, the human genome, and the growth of the Internet. She even managed to fit in some children’s book reviews. Her most terrifying assignment was preparing lunch for Julia Child, who praised the Brazilian fish stew but refused to touch the blackberry dessert. Victoria lives in Boston with her husband and three daughters.
Before becoming a full-time author, Victoria spent twenty years as an international journalist, fifteen of those years as foreign correspondent for the UK’s Financial Times. During that time, she had fun writing on a wide range of topics, including Brazil’s Yanomami Indians, architecture, space exploration, the human genome, and the growth of the Internet. She even managed to fit in some children’s book reviews. Her most terrifying assignment was preparing lunch for Julia Child, who praised the Brazilian fish stew but refused to touch the blackberry dessert. Victoria lives in Boston with her husband and three daughters.
Press Release from Astor-Blue Editions
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