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"I began to daydream about the jungle...."On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras.Nearly seventy years later, in the same hotel, acclaimed journalist Christopher S. Stewart wonders what he's gotten himself into. Stewart and Morde seek the same answer on their quests: the solution to the riddle of the whereabouts of Ciudad Blanca, buried somewhere deep in the rain forest on the Mosquito Coast. Imagining an immense and immaculate El Dorado–like city made entirely of gold, explorers as far back as the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés have tried to find the fabled White City.
About the Author
Christopher S. Stewart is an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative reporting with several colleagues in 2015.
His work has also appeared in GQ, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, New York, Paris Review, Wired, and other publications.
Earlier, Stewart served as deputy editor at the New York Observer and is a former contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, where, among other things, he wrote about the Unification Church's gun business and corruption in Iraq.
Stewart is the author of two books, including "Hunting the Tiger," about Zeljko Arkan Raznatovic, the Serbian warlord at the center of the 1990s Balkan wars, and "Jungleland," about the search for a lost city. His third book, "Drone Warrior," about the world of drones, will be published in June.
He lives with his family in New York.
Want more info? Follow Christopher on Twitter at @csstewart. Or please visit his author page on Facebook, or his website www.christophersstewart.com.