David Grann - The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

Pros: Astounding real-life adventure, great journalism, good pacing, interesting history and obsession
Cons: I want to know what comes next!

Move over, Indiana Jones--my newest adventure hero is a pudgy, balding, middle-aged journalist for the New Yorker.  David Grann fell upon some diaries that set him on his dual quest:  to find a fabled lost city in the Amazon, labeled ...

Pros: Unputdownable real-life tale. The line, "You can't make this stuff up" was made for this.
Cons: None.

In his outstanding account of his search for the story behind the mysterious disappearance in the Amazon in 1925 of renowned British explorer Percy Fawcett, author David Grann has performed a neat trick. By writing parallel stories -- the reconstruction ...