From James W. Hall, the highly acclaimed best-selling author of <i>Hard Aground, Mean High Tide</i>, and <i>Bones Of Coral</i>, comes a stunning and superbly rendered new thriller in which the most deadly animals in the jungle are the ones that kill for money. With one poacher's bullet, a young woman's life is tragically, brutally taken--and her mother's is shattered forever.  Thus begins <i>Gone Wild</i>, James W. Hall's electrifying new novel, which penetrates the lush, sultry jungles of Africa and Malaysia to explore the mercenary slaughter of animals-and to expose the savagery and humanity in us all. <i>Gone Wild</i> brings back Thorn, the haunting, quixotic hero last seen in the best-seller <i>Mean High Tide</i>.  And in a novel filled with the author's signatures exotic locales, vise-tightening suspense, steamy sexuality, hypnotic prose--Hall introduces a bold new element: one of the toughest, most complex female characters in modern fiction.  Allison Farleigh's desperate struggle to save the endangered orangutans from poachers--and to uncover the truth about her daughter's murder--give the novel its passion and its fire.  And the shocking international conspiracy she exposes in the process gives <i>Gone Wild</i> its relentless, heart-pounding tension. A mesmerizing journey into the heart of darkness, <i>Gone Wild</i> is one of those rare thrillers that not only makes you sweat--it makes you think.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>