Tribe of the Dead (U.K. version of 'Quintana Roo')

by Gary Brandner

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0727840118
• ISBN13: 9780727840110
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Solid horror / adventure novel with few, if any, supernatural elements.

"Quintana Roo" is about a lost native tribe that creates 'zombies' through brain surgery (very primitive brain surgery, in a religious ritual). (Quintana Roo is an area on the Atlantic coast of Mexico, on the Yucatan Peninsula. It's probably a Spanish name so I'm guessing it's pronounced Keen-ta-na Row-oh.) The book is set during the 1930's. It's only a few years before the start of World War II. The Nazis were already in power in Germany. The main character is an American who gets hired by the wife of a wealthy business man to retrieve the man (whether alive or dead) after his small plane crashes into the jungles of the Yucatan. This isn't my favorite of Brandner's novels by a long shot, but it's good, and it might be a good place to start for people who don't usually like supernatural horror. (If there any supernatural elements in the book, they are very rare.) "The Brain Eaters" is another non-supernatural horror novel written by Brandner, and I'm a big fan of that one. Fans of the supernatural should probably start with "The Howling", "Hellborn", "Carrion", or "The Boiling Pool." Note: The novel "Quintana Roo" is know in England (and the rest of the United Kingdom) as "Tribe of the Dead." Also Recommended: "Floater", "Hellborn", "Walkers", "Rot", and "The Howling" Parts I,II,III.