Synopsis
Searching for a downed helicopter in the primordial rain
forest of the Amazon, a geological survey for the mining company Free Amazonia
discovers the remnants of an indigenous tribe. All that survives of this tribe
are five individuals: the elderly shaman Antanajo; two young boys, Tinqo and
Ushon; Weihexa, a seven-year old girl with unusual gifts; and a newborn whose
name is Suyape. Against their will, the five Ipanao Indians are brought to the
nearest medical center. In depth examinations show one disturbing thing. There
is something wrong with their DNA.
A half world away David and Cecelia Goncalves are studying
another recently discovered tribe lost to the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Cecelia
is going for her PhD studying ‘non-contacteds’, tribes with little or no
contact with 21st century civilization, who happen to live in
environments put at risk by the modern world. Unbeknownst to the Goncalveses,
the Kerawan share a significant trait with the Ipanao. When Cecelia and David
learn of the discovery of a previously unknown indigenous group from their home
country, they leave New Guinea and rush to the Amazon to confront the Ipanao.
THE HUNTED is the
young adult novel of Suyape Goncalves, adopted and brought to the United States
by Cecelia and David Concalves. Now 17, an average American teenager, she has
been protected by her adopted parents. She knows only that she was found in the
Amazon but knows nothing of Weihexa, Tinqo and Ushon. But she has made
accidental contact with other indigenous kids: Anana, the Inuit; Anni Kristina
of the Finland Sami; Apanie, the Australian aborigine; Tran Xuan Chai of the
Ruc; and Tegay, an Ethiopian Surma. They all share one genetic trait, a trait
handed down for tens of thousands of years, dispersed to the survivors of those
who witnessed the landing of a strange people during the time of the last ice
age. These survivors, now scattered and living in the last pockets of earth
free from civilization, are being hunted. For buried in their DNA, locked in
the recesses of their minds, lies the secret to the forebears of humanity,
forebears who want the earth back.
In the language of the Ipanao, Suyape means ‘she remembers’.
And Suyape Goncalves does remember. In fact, under the right circumstances, she
can remember everything from the birth of her people to the present. As Free
Amazonia begins destroying the pristine rain forest in search of precious
metal, as the world’s ecosystem is endangered by global warming, and as the
unseen enemy known as the hunters bear down on them, Suyape and her friends
must unite, discover the truth of their past, and defeat the enemies of the
earth, human and otherwise. THE HUNTED will
be a series of novels each one pitting Suyape, her non-contacted friends, her
fun-loving sister Fabia and her boyfriends Brian Gendron and Quasar Onyuko, against
different forces that would alter the environment for profit and for survival.
For the earth and all of its inhabitants, what Suyape Goncalves remembers may
be all that lies between them and extinction.
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