1. The Gates of Hell 1
2. Somewhere in the Americas 7
3. The Devil Had Killed Him 11
4. A Land of Cruel Jungles 20
5. One of the Few Remaining Mysteries 26
6. The Heart of Darkness 39
7. The Fish That Swallowed the Whale 52
8. Lasers in the Jungle 60
9. Something That Nobody Had Done 65
10. The Most Dangerous Place on the Planet 74
11. Uncharted Territory 88
12. No Coincidences 105
13. Fer-de-Lance 113
14. Don't Pick the Flowers 124
15. Human Hands 139
16. I'm Going Down 148
17. A Bewitchment Place 160
18. Quagmire 170
19. Controversy 182
20. The Cave of the Glowing Skulls 194
21. The Symbol of Death 211
22. They Came to Wither the Flowers 219
23. White Leprosy 233
24. The National Institutes of Health 249
25. An Isolated Species 259
26. La Ciudad del Jaguar 271
27. We Became Orphans 289
Acknowledgments 303
Sources and Bibliography 305
Index 319
About the Author 327
Photo Credits 328