The Trade Mission/Dark Descent (2002)

1664011

Title: The Trade Mission

Awards: Selected as one of the Top Ten Best Books of the Year by The Toronto Star

Advanced Readers Copy: YES

English Publication History:

September 1st, 2002 by HarperFestival (ISBN: 9780002005081)

February 4th, 2003 by Scribner Book Company (ISBN: 9780743234221)

February 18th, 2003 by Scribner (ISBN: 9780743253277)

December 31st, 2003 by Harper Perennial (ISBN: 9780006392217)

January 1st, 2003 by Magna Large Print Books (ISBN: 9780750520003)

January 16th, 2004 by Pan Books (ISBN: 9780330390415)

July 13th, 2010 by HarperCollins (ISBN: 9781443401777)

As ‘Dark Descent’

March 30th, 2004 by Pocket Star Books (ISBN: 9780743453233)

German Publication History:

Die Handelsmission

March 1st, 2005 by Ullstein (ISBN: 9783548680491)

Dutch Publication History:

Handelsmissie

April 1st, 2003 by Anthos (ISBN: 9789041404695)

Synopsis:

On the heels of his acclaimed bestselling debut Lost Girls, Andrew Pyper brings his darkly musical language, chilling suspense, and psychological complexity to a story of survival in the Amazon jungle.

On the delirious eve of the new millennium, Marcus Wallace and Jonathon Bates, two twenty-four-year-old overnight dot-com millionaires, are on a trade mission in Brazil. Their product is Hypothesys, a virtual “morality machine” that promises to help people “make the best decisions of their lives.” But when the decision is made to take an ecotour up the Río Negro deep into the Amazon jungle, the Hypothesys team members are forced to make choices for themselves — choices that carry fatal consequences.
In the dead of night, their boat is boarded by paramilitaries who kill the Brazilian crew and kidnap Wallace and Bates, their two older colleagues, and their enigmatic interpreter, Crossman. Blindfolded and thrown into a pit for a prison, they must fight to find the will to survive. But when the increasingly unstable Wallace engineers a violent escape, their own natures emerge as a threat potentially more dangerous than the boundless jungle that surrounds them, or the gunmen who relentlessly pursue them.
A rare combination of literary skill, contemporary insight, and outstanding storytelling, The Trade Mission is an electrifying read that confirms Andrew Pyper’s mastery of psychological suspense.

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https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/trade-mission-1

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https://books.apple.com/ca/book/trade-mission/id388968463

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