The Devil's Snare
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Sent to search for a legendary plant known to locals as 'the devil's snare' after the stories of it's vines entangling wayward travelers and sucking their blood dry, an ethnobotanist finds herself trapped in the Amazon Rainforest racing against rivals to uncover a medical breakthrough for a pharma company. But as she pushes deeper into the jungle, she begins to get a sense she may have walked into a deadly conspiracy.
It's like Indiana Jones with a science degree. A novel that unspools the dangerous, sometimes shady real world of medicinal plant hunters.
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