Pishtaku

More than desiccated mummies clinging to their bracelets of gold and silver, or old carved stonewalls and pyramids of adobe baking in the world's driest desert, in Peru the corpses are silently piling high as the descendants of the Inca's endure terror on top of the Andes and along the coast the Creoles ignore the cries of desperation as simpleton superstitions. To find this secret you have to leave the tourists trade routes, go into the cold wilderness, to the high country of thin air, and ask all the wrong questions! Those with little experience would call them vampires, but it is not blood that they are after...they are the Pishtaku.In the Inca language of Quechua, the word "Pishtay" means cutting into slices.

From the Back Cover

PISHTAKU: human predators, desperate Andes, carving fat from the dead, corrupt police, sensual Peruvian women, disappeared, abandoned pueblo, slain companions, sucking out eyeballs, black market...massacre. (added by author)

About the Author

Yanira is a native of the Peruvian Andes, born in Huancayo, and raised first in the remote Andean rancho where the people speak Quechua. She has studied in Huancayo and Lima, and has been living in the United States for the past nine years since marrying the coauthor. Her family maintains households in Huancayo, Lima, and Chiquin. James is a native of Southern California, born in San Diego, and raised in the crowded SoCal metropolis. He has studied in San Diego, and Reno, Nevada, and in 2004 earned a doctorate study in geology, researching the rocks of the Peruvian Andes, where he met the coauthor. He has lived in Huancavelica, and worked at many mining districts in the highlands of the Andes, whereupon the locals robustly referred to him as a Pishtaku. (edited by author)Yanira is a native of the Peruvian Andes, born in Huancayo, and raised first in the remote Andean rancho where the people speak Quechua. She has studied in Huancayo and Lima, and has been living in the United States for the past nine years since marrying the coauthor. Her family maintains households in Huancayo, Lima, and Chiquin. James is a native of Southern California, born in San Diego, and raised in the crowded SoCal metropolis. He has studied in San Diego, and Reno, Nevada, and in 2004 earned a doctorate study in geology, researching the rocks of the Peruvian Andes, where he met the coauthor. He has lived in Huancavelica, and worked at many mining districts in the highlands of the Andes, whereupon the locals robustly referred to him as a Pishtaku. (edited by author)

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