{"product_id":"9781250053114","title":"Roosevelt's Beast : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eRoosevelt's Beast\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Louis Bayard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoosevelt's Beast is a reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt's ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition: a new novel from the acclaimed Louis Bayard \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1914. Brazil's \u003ci\u003eRio da Dúvida\u003c\/i\u003e, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Colonel 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 the Colonel are kidnapped by a mysterious Amazonian tribe, they soon discover the price of their freedom. They must find and kill a ravenous beast – a beast that has never been seen and that leaves no tracks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his characteristically rich storytelling and a touch of old-fashioned horror, the bestselling and critically acclaimed Louis Bayard turns the well-known story of the Roosevelt-Rondon expedition on its head and anatomizes the demons that can haunt us from birth to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bayard describes the toll on survivors [of the Roosevelt\/Randon expedition] with wonderful dry wit...A mystery in the Arthur Conan Doyle tradition, had Sherlock and Watson been masochistic enough to volunteer for this dreadful trek...Bayard gives us a compassionate, unsentimental portrait of a son who would forever live in the shadow of a colossal father.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Louis Bayard's imagination is as wild, uncharted, and magnificent as the Amazon, and his tale is as lush as a rainforest. I loved \u003ci\u003eRoosevelt's Beast\u003c\/i\u003e and was under its spell from Bayard's wondrous - and haunting - first sentence.” —Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eRoosevelt's Beast\u003c\/i\u003e] never fails to deliver chills and peril in a claustrophobic jungle atmosphere...This journey into the heart of darkness strikes enough notes that a variety of readers will find an element to tempt them, whether it's the terrifying unknown or the simple desires of the human heart.” —\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bayard's heart-of-darkness saga is impressive--blood and sacrifice, primitive peoples and Roosevelt courage.... [He] exactingly chronicles the hardships of charting the river, right down to the damp, dangers and drudgery of the Amazonian jungle... [\u003ci\u003eRoosevelt's Beast\u003c\/i\u003e] is a suspense-filled re-imagining of history deepened by a confrontation with evil's supernatural presence.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” —Elizabeth Dickie, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“For the past decade or so Louis Bayard has been taking the subjects of 'genre fiction'--from Gothic murder to jungle adventure--and rejuvenating them with all the skills of a literary novelist. \u003ci\u003eRoosevelt's Beast\u003c\/i\u003e combines dizzying narrative energy with real psychological subtlety and stylistic elegance. It's an immensely satisfying book.” —Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara and Watergate: A Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Louis Bayard's gift is to seamlessly merge careful research with the fantastic, the horrible, the sublime, and the universal. \u003ci\u003eRoosevelt's Beast\u003c\/i\u003e 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 been the result.” —Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An edge-of-your-seat thriller with all the twists and turns of an unexplored river, \u003ci\u003eRoosevelt's Beast\u003c\/i\u003e is also something greater: a triumphant proof that the truths of art can surpass those of history.” —Kermit Roosevelt III, great-great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, and author of In the Shadow of the Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250053114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40634005520590,"sku":"9781250053114","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_1adcfc8c-e1c6-4936-8cd0-b249d31d3f03.jpg?v=1638930086","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250053114","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}