Secret of the Slaves (2007)
“Evidently they didn’t call this part of the world the rain forest for nothing.Annja sat contentedly in the lobby of the Lord Manaus, tapping away at the notebook computer. The rushing sound of the morning downpour provided a backdrop more soothing to her than the generic Brazilian jazz oozing softly from the hotel speakers.She was still amused by the follow-up to last night’s encounter with the snake. The concierge’s supercilious disbelief when she claimed to have found a poisonous snake in her... room had almost been funny. He had come around when she described the distinctive patterns of one of Brazil’s most feared snakes. Obviously he recognized the design.She suspected close encounters with poisonous serpents wasn’t rare in this city in the jungle. But she didn’t think snakes, poisonous or not, were common visitors inside the Lord Manaus.The first hotel maintenance man to show up at her door in his green coveralls had been cheerfully nonchalant, clearly not taking the white North American woman’s babble about vipers all that seriously.MoreLess
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