Sequel to THE TREASURE OF AGUASCALINTES...Dirk and Mria plan a trip up the Amazon to Manaus. Their guide fails to meet them at Sao Paulo, and they nearly drown when their boat capsizes in Iguazu Falls. After a couple of nights in Rio and Buenas Aires, Maria flies to Cairo, and Dirk returns to Houson by way of Lima, Peru where he accidently meets their missing guide, Louiza Santos, who admits to being a female impersonator and later in the story resurfaces at the Watermellon Man Club in Houston as a Latin vocalist. All Dr. Barclay's novels are sequels with the same major characters and overlapping plots. Louiza will get more lines after Dr. Barclay's next attempt up the Amazon. This is the eighth Derek Strong PI novel...WARNING This book has violence, profanity, and erotic sex. Okay for dummes. GWBJ.