When beautiful and iconoclastic activist Rose Smith is abducted and brutally murdered in the Amazon, where she is working to prevent big oil from drilling on Indian lands, her former lover, investigative writer Ulyce Robideaux, sets out on a trans-continental journey to uncover the mystery behind her death. Unbeknown to him, he will be drawn into a web of international intrigue at the highest levels, endangering his own life. Complicating matters is Marianne Popovich, who hoping to win Robideaux's love sets out on an odyssey of her own into Rose's past, which will not only reveal the true motivation for Rose's activism but explicate a critical and missing portion of her own life as well. From the rapidly changing world of the traditional Amazonian Indians to the corridors of power on the world stage where compromise and treachery are the name of the game in an ongoing quest for money and power, Death of an Activist is a fast paced examination of energy geopolitics and its place in the New World Order