The dream of something more can be a dangerous thing. Harry detests the family soap factory, watches the steam rise, and yearns for horizons that don't end in suds. When his uncle's letters arrive from South America, full of gold and glory, he knows he must go. Tom, a rough but resourceful worker from his father's factory, refuses to let him go alone. Together they sail for a continent whispered about like El Dorado, where treasure waits for the brave. But the adventure begins almost the moment they land: the earth itself shakes apart the world they knew, and survival becomes the first test of what they're made of. Fenn's 1883 adventure pulses with the restless energy of youth, the bond between an upper-class dreamer and his working-class companion, and the intoxicating promise that somewhere, beyond the ordinary, something golden is waiting to be found.
