To celebrate their anniversary, Eve Hardaway arranged a special vacation in the jungles of Oaxaca, Mexico. However, her husband had others plans -- a divorce so he could live with his new girlfriend, leaving his wife and young son behind. Shocked with this revelation, Eve decides to take the one-week vacation anyway and spend the time evaluating her life.

At the rustic lodge, Eve discovers some disturbing items left by the previous occupant of her hut. Then on a jungle excursion, she stumbles upon a remote cabin in a clearing -- and a mysterious man who doesn't want anyone knowing he's there. As the small group of people at the lodge soon learns, he will do whatever it takes to protect his evil secret. He sabotages everything he can at the lodge, while a horrific storm deluges the jungle. In a frantic attempt to leave and reach civilization, Eve and the others are tested to their limits -- and beyond -- in a race to survive.

In DON'T LOOK BACK, Gregg Hurwitz ratchets up the terror and suspense to a fever pitch in this first-rate thriller. I found myself holding my breath then gasping for air as Eve struggled to outwit this malevolent jungle man. Excellent descriptive prose gives readers a feeling of being there with Eve as she battles a raging river, runs through treacherous terrain, flies over a gorge on a zipline, while dealing with torrential rain, smothering heat, unusual flora and fauna, and a truly evil man who'll stop at nothing to see that no one survives the horrendous ordeal.