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High Andes: Mercy and Wylie race for their lives across the Andes Kindle Edition

by Rolf Margenau (Author), Ahni Kruger (Illustrator), Tiffany Yates Martin (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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Will Wylie and his daughter make it out alive?

Wylie Cypher, a corporate attorney, has a dying marriage, a midlife crisis, and is disillusioned with his work. Trying to regain fading youth, he plans a trekking vacation with his daughter, Mercy, across the White Mountains of Peru.

When he arrives in Lima a young law student mistakenly believes Wylie is an agent of the US government and gives him a travel guide concealing documents that show how the government is torturing and murdering dissidents. Wylie decides to deliver those documents to US authorities, which will affect the outcome of the civil war raging in Peru at the time.

Peruvian government thugs and agents of the Shining Path communist guerrilla movement are quickly on Wylie's trail, both eager to kill Wylie and his entire trekking party. Wylie, his daughter, a local guide, and his friend, an archeologist (who is more than he seems), and porters set out using various ruses to throw their pursuers off track.

Wylie narrowly escapes from the local police after being tortured and losing a toe. But can they cross the foreboding eighteen thousand foot high pass and make it to Cajamarca in time to take the only safe flight home and deliver the documents?

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Glorious...This is the sort of original and intelligent book that is very difficult to stop reading once you start, as it bursts with action or interesting detail at every turn. I learned a great deal about Peruvian politics and history while I was entertained, and it's one of those review books I keep after reading it. Recommended. 4.5/5 stars. - SPR Review (High Andes is) an intrepid adventure and odyssey through the Andes mountains of Peru that are breathtaking in the literal and figurative meanings of the word...The portrayal of the indigenous people is colorful and rich as is the description of the Andes mountain ranges... When he writes about the indigenous people, his writing is at its best, and he succeeds in firing up the reader's imagination.The details about soroche, altitude sickness, the switchback hairpin roads, the condors, the mountain weather and conditions and the references to telexes and floppy disks as well as the conspicuous absence of digital cameras, smart phones, and laptops provide a real sense of time and place.
This book gets high marks for its intelligence and thoughtfulness. - The Palmetto Review Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite 5 Stars
I loved the descriptions of the Andes, the cloud forest and the unspoiled beauty of Peru. High Andes is a unique and marvelous story which captures the tensions and confusion of a country torn by inequality and ripped apart by opposing political forces. This sets Wylie and his daughter Mercy down for a hiking/bonding experience that offers them and the reader a lot more excitement than they ever expected. High Andes is a highly entertaining and fast-paced thriller, and I had a lot of fun reading it. It's most highly recommended.

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Bestselling author Rolf Margenau has written five novels and published two photography books. The novels feature a main character named Wylie Cypher, first seen as a twenty-year-old college dropout who comes of age during the Korea n War. At forty, Wylie is a successful but burned out lawyer with a failing marriage. He tries to find lost youth on a trek with his daughter through the high Andes. Instead, he finds mayhem, murder, a devastating civil war in Peru, and loses a toe.
Retired, in his mid-sixties, Wylie does battle with BIG AG as a Master Gardener. He befriends a group of eco-terrorists who help save the Monarch butterfly. Then in a novel called National Parks, an aged Wylie lives in a dystopian future where Congress attempts to sell off our national parks to bail out a bankrupt country.
The novels featuring a younger Wylie are realistic with a dose of humor. The books about older Wylie are solidly satirical. Critics find them very funny, but meaningful and thought provoking.
Rolf Margenau lives amid farmland in northern New Jersey with his first wife of over sixty years.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00M4TE8V2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Frogworks Publishing; 1st edition (July 24, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 24, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1177 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 276 pages

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- #15,129 in War & Military Action Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #27,313 in Action Thriller Fiction
- #28,976 in War & Military Action Fiction (Books)

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Rolf Margenau has written six novels and published two photography books.

The novels feature a main character named Wylie Cypher, first seen as a twenty-year-old college dropout who comes of age during the Korean War. At forty, Wylie is a successful but burned out lawyer with a failing marriage. He tries to find lost youth on a trek with his daughter through the high Andes. Instead, he finds mayhem, murder, a devastating civil war in Peru, and loses a toe.

Retired, in his mid-sixties, Wylie does battle with BIG AG as a Master Gardener. He befriends a group of eco-terrorists who help save the Monarch butterfly. Then in a novel called National Parks, an aged Wylie lives in a dystopian future where Congress attempts to sell off our national parks to bail out a bankrupt country.

Longevity, a fable about the results of a medical team’s effort to prolong human life by 30 years,was published early in 2019. In it Lucy Mendoza leads a team of scientists at the Prendergast Foundation who are testing an enzyme that might extend our lives by thirty years. The federal government, a major pharmaceutical company, and a billionaire investor have no qualms about eliminating Lucy to ensure that project will fail. Her former lover Grant Duran, an ex-Marine special ops officer who’s lost a hand and is now a molecular biologist, thwarts the first attempt on her life.

The novels featuring a younger Wylie are realistic with a dose of humor. The books about older Wylie are solidly satirical. Critics find them very funny, but meaningful and thought provoking.

The author retired Wylie Cypher in 2019 to research and write about how young people with a German background respond to the demands of World War II, on the home front, at war and in an American POW camp. War Story was published in September 2021.

Rolf Margenau lives amid farmland in northern New Jersey with his first wife of over sixty years.

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AnnaLouise

contemporary thriller in a breathtaking ancient setting

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2014

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Hold on when you reach the beginning of the chase across the Cordillera Blanca, about halfway through High Andes, and keep your reading light lit. The action, the battles, the description of the mountains, the fear, heroism, and anguish of the protagonist and his daughter are gripping. I couldn’t put the book down until the end notes.
This is a Hitchcockian story, as an ordinary guy, a well educated professional, mistakenly comes into possession of damning information that causes two sets of villains to chase him, his daughter, and allies across the forbidding White Mountains of Peru. Like the mountains themselves, Margenau’s descriptions of them are breathtaking. I felt worn out as the trekkers slogged their way toward their first battle on an ice field at 16,000 feet. And claustrophobic as they tried to escape army thugs in an underground cave full of mummies. The protagonists seem thwarted at every turn as they try to reach safety.
The story is crafted as a straightforward thriller, but the author uses the time (1980) and place (Peru during a vicious civil war) to flesh out contemporary themes. He contrasts the “noble Indian” with a bloodthirsty aristocracy and shows how the enormous gap between haves and have-nots encourages anarchy. He uses a 500-year-old child mummy and the ancient Peruvian spirit of the mountains, Pachamama, to comment on what happens when humans interfere with the natural order of things. Characters are solidly three-dimensional. My favorite is Gaspar, the Inca peasant who interacts with the child mummy. He reflects in positive ways the pure, but humble life in the highlands —threatened by man and nature. The bad guys are all villainous, and I confess I was pleased when one of them keep losing bodily functions as he more deeply embraced the cruelty of communist insurrection. Wylie, the protagonist, who begins as a middle-aged burnout, meets the challenge of torture, combat and high mountain trekking, gaining strength from each encounter. I learned a lot about the exotic location and time of this story. I have new respect for condors and am tempted to give up my armchair for the chance to see alpenglow on the Huascaran peak. High Andes is no ordinary thriller. I recommend it for readers who love the story of an exciting chase that also provides food for thought and a clear look at a beautiful and little known region of the world.

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Susanna Gordon

This book is fast moving and a great read. High Andes is an exciting excursion into ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2014

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Kudos to Rolf Margenau..This book is fast moving and a great read. High Andes is an exciting excursion into a world of governmental/political intrigue and is culturally revealing during a time of extreme unrest in Peru.The journey of Wylie and his daughter leaves you on " the edge of your seat" The "trek" across the Andes I found thrilling, interesting and intriguing filled with the beauty of nature as well as having excitement at every turn.. Keep your night light burning "cause you can't put it down.

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Namta Gupta

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Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2014

Before the review, let me share that I feel blessed to have been the reviewer that has probably read the most interesting works till now. And also, that it makes me happy to claim that the High Andes by Rolf Margenau is also one of these excellent works, and that it also has the potential to evoke strong reader interest in the long run just like the previous books I have reviewed.
High Andes is very well written and the best thing about it is that it attempts blending political voyage in the cherubic settings; hence certainly it is a worthy book even if someone is not a fan of political-historical fiction. The innocence of a common man and how his life is affected because of the breakdown in the governmental machinery is enough to touch hearts. The first chapter itself evokes interest when the mummy is laid to rest. I won’t give the story out, but I would say that certainly it is a very good work.
Even before the setting or the story, the first thing that any reader would notice is the cover and it is vibrant and matches the central theme of the book very well. In fact, the pristine scene on the cover under the sharp gaze of strong beaked birds is enough to showcase the theme and setting that the writer will be speaking of later in his work.

I would say that this book is not normal run-of-the-mill kind; it has substance and evokes interest gradually. At several places the reading could get cumbersome for some, and sometimes one may need to go back and forth due to the sheer amount of new words, new locales and also because of amount of emotions it evokes. Despite writer’s attempt at remaining aloof, it is clear that he is indulgent in the central subject and it has yielded good results here in this book. For example, the scenic beauty that the words evoke in the mind of the reader and the contrast with the ground level turbulence would not have been possible without this indulgence. But somewhere a little humor should have been employed to make it extend its reach. Besides that it must be conceded that nowhere can anyone feel that any passages or lines or even words are unnecessary. The editing is sharp, the imagery loud while the words remain subtly brutal. All in all, it is a good book and can be read not once but several times.

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2014

This book did not suit for my taste. I felt that the author was stretching the plot a bit, which caused extra pages which were not needed. If the book was simple, I guess I would have liked it but, it was way too long for such story line.

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Kelli

Overly descriptive.

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2014

High Andes has a good storyline and a lot of history. Margenau details his characters and the story very well, bordering on going a little too far. Obviously a lot of time and effort has gone into the writing, but while I do enjoy learning lot about the story, I'm not a fan of overly descriptive detail. It is a very long story because of that. I had to force myself to keep going. Decent read, but not particularly my style.

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2014

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This story, although not long in length, makes for a very fast-paced and entertaining read that grabbed hold of my attention and kept me turning pages. The characters were well detailed and brought to life, the locations described accurately and the plot constantly changing and evolving to surprise the reader. I enjoyed this story and look forward to others written by this author.

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