The Pool

by Robert Rootes

In the Jungle… “If we should not come out, I don’t want rescue parties to come in looking for us. It’s too risky. If with all my experience we can’t make it, there’s not much hope for others. That’s one reason I’m telling exactly where we’re going.” British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, May 29, 1925 The last written message to his wife… In the winter of 1930, I had finished my groundwork to become an archeologist. New discoveries in Egypt meant treasures were waiting to unearth. South America yielded very few artifacts, but I suspected the jungle hid most things from untrained eyes. We did not set out on a grand adventure to make names for ourselves. We had not gone in search of the famed and lost surveyor; we did not believe we’d find anything extraordinary. The professor wanted to experience the splendors of the South America and the rainforest one last time. I was privileged to join the expedition. The Amazonian jungle is an unforgiving and mysterious environment. We were not intrepid explorers, we were tourists, and the jungle was going to take more than it would ever give back. We were unprepared for what we eventually discovered, and the world would never know of our unearthing. The jungle keeps its secrets.

199 pages, Paperback

Published April 18, 2017

About the author

Robert Rootes: spent the 1990's buying and selling easy-bake-ovens in Minneapolis, MN. He spoke at an international conference about creating marketing channels for toy soldiers to patrol and protect farmers from alien invasions. From 2001-2008, Robert trained an elite squadron of paratrooper seagulls in Orlando, FL. to combat the growing pollution. He earned praise for implementing karma in Edison, NJ. Then, Robert ambitiously took a year off promoting scuba diving puppets in Anchorage, AK. After testing the market for frisbees in Suffolk, NY, he joined a covert team of highly trained geckos to rescue animals from roving circuses. 2010-2011, Robert became a scribe and learned self-efficacy through transcribing new stories on parchment made from the strips of dried skin peeled from the backs of plagiarizers.

As an accomplished author of fifteen novels and counting, including Soul Takers, Soul Takers: Soul Mates, Stranger Beside Me, Lycanthrope Moon, The Pool, Lilith: Dark Angel, and Preternatural Gifts. Robert holds a BA in English Literature and an AAS from the University of Alaska. After 15 years in Alaska, he and his family now reside in a land of confusion and taxes. Robert continues to write, freelance, and is an artist. You can find his books on Amazon and at other fine booksellers. You can find him on Facebook and other social media. He likes to know people are reading his stuff and encourages you to seek him out!