num_pages: 231
description: Congo Free State 1888On a mission deep in the jungle Oxford anthropologist James Litchfield comes face-to-face with a local legend: a wild man who wanders with mountain gorillas and lives as one of their own.The chance encounter with the savage whom James calls Michael leads to a game of observation and exploration. Their mutual curiosity turns to an attractionone that Michael has never experienced and James is desperate to deny.When members of the expedition unearth James's secret discoverya living specimen of man at his most primitiveMichael becomes a pawn in their quest for fame.As their relationship deepens James is compelled to protect Michael from the academics who would treat him as nothing more than a scientific acquisition and London society which threatens to destroy their passionate bond...
language: English
title: Jungle Heat
publisher: Carina Press