Review: Becks imagination: # 2...awesome! Addictive!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
....part two of The First Bird finds the reluctant linguist, Matt, his gun ho girlfriend Meagan,  and an unlikely pairing of a team put together by the CDC and a billionaire entrepreneur. With no other choice, the head of the CDC, (a tenacious but altruistic woman named Carla)  must let the money hungry entrepreneur, fund the trip to the Amazon aboard his jet; and using his seemingly limitless funds and connections to persuade the Brazilian government to give he and his team access to their jungle under the false pretense of a scientific expedition. When in truth the money hungry man just wants to exploit the fauna for a huge profit. Blinded by greed, he doesn't realize the investment for his prize may be more than he can pay!Matt solves the riddle of the ancient Incas (and other warnings in several different languages, some far older, some not even a true language at all, but all portend of dire peril for those foolish enough to enter) and though he tells them again and again of what he fears may be waiting, (visions of horrible creatures deep in the bowels of the earth, and roaming the frozen peaks of the dark mountains; terrors witnessed first hand making him more than ready to heed the signs) is ignored and ordered to lead the doomed team into a a lost valley created by a massive meteor strike hundreds of thousands-perhaps millions- of years ago. The animals, plants and insect life are all either poisonous, hostile, but mostly ....hungry! Giant spiders the great great ancestor of the trapdoor species are everywhere...only these are as big as a pony and could snatch an African rhinoceros and have it dragged into its burrow faster than a kid snatches a pop up eggo!  Now I'm not going to spoil it for you any further. The horror and frantic pace NEVER stops. This is another addictive series by Beck.Now I have to go. I'm starting number three right after this review.