Quintana Roo: Tribe of the Dead [Mass Market Paperback]

Gary Brandner (Author)

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett; First Thus edition (January 12, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449123855
• ISBN-13: 978-0449123850
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid horror / adventure novel with few, if any, supernatural elements., January 11, 2006

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David "Laymon Fan" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quintana Roo: Tribe of the Dead (Mass Market Paperback)

"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.