How It All Goes Down
Ransom
- Remember James Lynch, who was kidnapped in the Amazon back in Chapter 2?
- Dude's just peachy.
- Grann meets Lynch in São Paulo to learn about his escape from captivity.
- Here's Lynch's story.
- Lynch is held prisoner for two days by a local tribe.
- Lynch realizes that four of the five chiefs all defer to a fifth one. That's the guy he needs to do business with.
- Lynch agrees to give this chieftain everything in exchange for release: boats, equipment, money.
- The amount of the ransom comes to a whopping $30K.
- On the way home, Lynch wonders if Fawcett, too, had been taken hostage.
- Lynch gives Grann some advice: find a top-notch guide with ties to the area and go in quietly.
- Hmm, beats our plan of yelling and screaming and running in with someone from Peoria, Illinois.