Amazon

In the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, Dan Backwood has built a launch site for his revolutionary reusable rocket. As soon as he brings the rocket into it, however, he is beset by nationalist partisans led by his old schoolmate Keith Fernside, now an ecologist working in Brazil. Keith, Dan knows, would never forgive him for what happened during their rainforest expedition four years earlier.While Keith keeps assailing him, Dan has to face the local military that plan to build a kind of Maginot Line in the rainforest, launching a satelite with his reusable vehicle. The United Nations intervenes, and Dan finds himself stuck between the Brazilian and the U.N. military commanders.