The Los Angeles Review of Books asked me to amp up my Goodreads review of Douglas Preston’s fabulous book, The Lost City of the Monkey God, for publication on their site. I was happy to comply. To read my review in full, click here. Spoiler alert: I loved it.
For centuries Hondurans have told their children the myth of the Lost City of the Monkey God, but myths are often rooted in fact, and in the early Oughts cinematographer and inveterate searcher for lost cities Steve Elkins starts looking for it. National Geographic/New Yorker writer and novelist Douglas Preston, in the way nosy journalists…
Read more At the end of that first chapter he writes “I paid attention. I really did.”