The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Chapter 13

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.