The Magdalena Curse
by F. G. Cottam
Review: A curse … or merely a wicked situation? Which shall it turn out to be is the question readers will be asking themselves in F. G. Cottam's latest thriller, The Magdalena Curse.
Cottam has written a novel that will surely draw you in to the occult. The main character, Mark Hunter, is an intense character, a father who believes his son is possessed. He engages the help of a doctor, Elizabeth Bancroft, only to discover that she may not share his opinion, and has her own ideas. He travels to Magdalena in an attempt to find answers to his questions and to hopefully find a cure for his son. He will stop at nothing to free his son.
From England to the tropical rain forests of the Amazon, you travel along with the characters and are immersed in the consuming world of the occult. The story unfolds in a truly bizarre manner and may challenge your beliefs in the occult. Not a book for the faint of heart or the easily unnerved, but a wonderful book if you like to be involved in what you read. The ending is not necessarily a surprise, but how it gets there may not be what you expect.
Special thanks to Lynne Gordon for contributing her review of The Magdalena Curse.
Acknowledgment: Minotaur Books provided a copy of The Magdalena Curse for this review.
Review Copyright © 2011 — Lynne Gordon — All Rights Reserved
Reprinted with Permission
Location(s) referenced in The Magdalena Curse: Scotland
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The Magdalena Curse by F. G. Cottam
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-312-64325-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-64325-6
Publication Date: August 2011
List Price: $25.99
Synopsis (from the publisher): It only takes a couple of visits to convince Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft that Adam Hunter is not just having bad dreams. He’s a child possessed.
His father is desperate: adamant that his son’s affliction is the result of a curse he incurred in the depths of the Amazon, where a badly misguided military operation ended in a terrifying and macabre encounter. There he met two women—one who placed the curse and the other with whom any hope of saving his son resides.
Mark Hunter leaves the Scottish Highlands to beg help from the mysterious woman, leaving his son in the care of Elizabeth—who is about to discover there are equally dark secrets on their own doorstep.
And in her blood ...