Savage is the Dawn

Violence, cruelty, and the hunger for revenge, bleed from every page. When a hydroelectric dam is installed on a tributary to the Amazon River, everyone in the surrounding rainforest becomes caught in a swift vortex of viscera and dehumanization.
Here, where life abounds in the jungle, we find Jack, a wanderer, who stumbles upon a dying indigenous man. Jack, now drawn by the need for immediate medical aid, discovers a makeshift infirmary in the village of Akatan, a modernized tribe. Here, where life and death meet in the jungle, we find Laurence a P.A. who is laboring to help more injured than he can handle. When guerrilla forces massacre the families of those working to build the dam, Kip a pilot and profiteer rescues the wounded villagers and recruits the local missionaries to team up with Laurence and Jack to save the unfortunate maimed.
Here, where death rides unchallenged in the jungle, we meet Sila, the once dying indigenous man from a nearby hostile tribe. While the others perform meatball-surgery, Sila recounts a tale of rivalry, slavery, maritime misfortune and vengance against the man who kidnapped his lover on the night of their union. For those who like their coffee with a shot of adrenaline, I present Savage is the Dawn.