Those who have arrived in Peru on previous expeditions to gather this precious resource haven’t made it out of Peru alive. The locals want to maintain the monopoly on their trees and they aren’t happy with foreigners trying to take their product away. Clem and the East India Company want Merrick to help them take cuttings from the Cinchona tree in order to get quinine, a substance needed in the cure for malaria. So, when his old friend Clem arrives to convince him to come on an expedition to Peru. As a former smuggler for the East India Company Merrick sustained an injury to his leg which left him needing a cane. Merrick Treymayne is feeling stifled and unwanted since moving back to his family home in Cornwall with his curmudgeonly brother Charles. The Bedlam Stacks By Natasha Pulley Blurb
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