Roraima Gold

by Terry J. Logan

Overview

A well-established American professor of Geology is asked by the State Department to investigate goings on at an american owned gold mine in the interior of the small South American nation of Guyana. The mine is located on the border with Brazil and near the Guyana town of Lethem in the foothills of the Roraima plateau. There are a number of unusual sicknesses leading to death in the native Amerindian villages near the mine. Luke is met at the mine by hostility on the part of the American manager and his staff, and Luke is able to determine that he is being withheld access to parts of the mine. A Brazilian doctor, Maria Alves, has been directed by her government to investigate the sickness among Brazilian workers at the mine. She and Luke work as a team to solve the mystery. A hit man has been hired to kill Luke and he only escapes with his life through the good graces of a Catholic nun he meets in Lethem. Luke is helped in his exploits by a fellow American geologist, now living in Guyana, who was the subject of an earlier novel by the author, "The Dark Stone".

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149618460
Publisher:	BookLocker.com, Inc.
Publication date:	05/26/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	115
File size:	289 KB

About the Author

Terry Logan is a retired professor of soil science from The Ohio State University where he taught and conducted research for 28 years in environmental science. A native of Guyana, he obtained his undergraduate degree in soil science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and his masters and Ph.D. in soil chemistry from Ohio State. After retirement, Dr. Logan became President and CEO of a small technology company in Ohio before moving to Beaufort, South Carolina. He now lives in Sarasota, Florida. Dr. Logan also operated a consulting business with his wife, Billie Lindsay, for 16 years. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, the Soil Science Society of America, and the American Society for the Advancement of Science, and Editor-in-Chief of Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. Dr. Logan is the author of two published works of fiction, The Dark Stone and Little Sand Key.