The Jaguar

Perrin, Campana, Wanu... Three more dissimilar people would be hard to find. And yet one evening in the Crillon, one of Paris's ritziest hotels, all three take the elevator, together. Wanu is an Indian from the Amazonian rainforest. Brought to Europe as part of a humanitarian awareness tour, he is whisked by plane from the stone age to the City of Light. Campana, Wanu's interpreter, is a specialist in Indian dialects. Born in the Amazon of an anthropologist father, his schooling was bathed in the magic and brutality of the "Green Inferno." He's an intellectual, but in the vein of Indiana Jones. Perrin is a shirker; handsome, funny, but always on the make. Then, one evening, he steps into the elevator at the Crillon and his shallow existence is turned upside down. Wanu, the shaman of the rainforest, fixes his gaze on Perrin the gambler, and chooses him...