Taking us deep into the Amazon, Masters of the Lost Land is the shocking story of how a network of mobsters posing as rural entrepreneurs have seized control of huge tracts of rainforest and exploited it for untold personal gain, silencing, imprisoning or murdering anyone trying to stop them.

Set against a backdrop of spiralling ecological disaster and Brazil's efforts to transform itself into a global superpower at any cost, Araújo's darkly compelling investigation follows the harrowing efforts of one couple trying to bring the mobsters to justice.