High Andes: Wylie Cypher Fights His Way Across the White Mountains of Peru with His Daughter, Mercy, to Protect a Vital International Secret. Featuring Torture, Mayhem, International Smuggling, the Ancient Goddess, Pachamama, a Child Mummy, and the Cia.

by Rolf Margenau

Overview

Wylie Cypher, suffering from a mid-life crisis decides to challenge fading youth by trekking across the Cordillera Blanca (White Mountains) of the high Andes in Peru with his daughter, Mercy, just graduated from college. It is 1981.

Mistakenly, he acquires documents that contain explosive and damning evidence of the Peruvian government's extreme interrogation techniques. A series of misunderstandings precipitate a heart-pounding chase across the high mountains by two sets of villains - government thugs and members of the communist guerilla Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). Combat in the thin air of the mountains, deceptions of many sorts, hairbreadth escapes, torture, action in underground caves populated by mummies, and unexpected plot twists fill the book's pages.

It is in America's interest to observe this growing communist threat in its own hemisphere, so the CIA is involved. While Wylie and his cohorts are running for their lives, the author also reports on international smuggling of historical artifacts, the fate of a 600 year ole child mummy, and the ancient spirit of the mountains, Pachamama.

Themes examined are: how a dysfunctional government and an increasing gap between rich and poor lead to anarchy, don't screw with Mother Nature, and there's nothing like being tortured and shot at to overcome a midlife crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780988231139
Publisher:	Frogworks Publishing
Publication date:	08/26/2014
Series:	Wylie Cypher , #3
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

The author of Public Information has had a varied career. He has been a scrub nurse in an operating room, a professional photographer, a soldier during the Korean War, a correspondent for the Pacific Stars and Stripes, an attorney specializing in international corporate law, a manager of large and small businesses and, lately, an author and Master Gardener.

His first book,Public Information, tells the story of Wylie Cypher, a hapless young soldier who arrives in Korea in the midst of bloody combat. Wylie manages to survive his sixteen-month tour of duty as Margenau recounts in gory, ribald, poignant and accurate detail. His adventures are recounted in military jargon and his sometimes abrasive involvement with the "Army way" describes the good, bad and incredible of life in the military. Along the way, Wylie manages to find and lose love.

Pistils and Poetry is the author's second book. It is a compilation of favorite Elizabethan poems (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, and numerous others) juxtaposed with the author's photographs of flowers. The book is considered as an elegant way to tease reluctant poetry readers into an appreciation of the beautiful sentiments and language of long ago masters of the English language.

Encouraged by the reception for his first novel, Margenau published Master Gardener, his second novel, in March 2013. It is a story that explores conflicts between the benefits of engineered crops and their potential for ecological disaster. Wylie Cypher, the hero of Public Information, is now seventy-five years old. He uses his life and legal experience to defend one of the women in his life, Anne Proctor, against the machinations of malevolent BIG AG. Senior citizens band together as eco-terrorists to save the monarch butterfly, and Dick Geier, the ruthless and profane CEO of BIG AG, engages in corporate shenanigans that reflect current headlines. The story is set in Middletown, New Anglia, not too far from Philadelphia, and episodes along the Amazon River in Peru bracketed by episodes along the Amazon River in Peru..

His third novel, published in August 2014, is High Andes.

Rolf Margenau lives in rural New Jersey with his wife, three dogs, and a flower garden favored by monarch butterflies. He is now working on his fourth novel. Tentatively titled National Parks, the story recounts what happens, in the near future, when Congress decides to nationalize America's National Parks.