The Deadly Curse of Toco-rey

The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey
Author Frank Peretti
Series Cooper Kids Adventure series
Genre Suspense, Adventure
Publisher Word Publishing
Publication date
05-1996, 2005
Media type Paperback
Pages 150 (6 pg excerpt from Desert Stone)
ISBN 0-8499-3644-6
LC Class PZ7.P4254 De
Preceded by The Secret of the Desert Stone
Followed by The Legend of Annie Murphy

The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey is a young-adult fiction story written by seasoned veteran of the thriller genre Frank E. Peretti.

Toco-Rey has all the elements of an Indiana Jones tale mixed up with Stephen King fantasy/horror and tied up with a good dose of religion. In this Cooper Kids adventure novel, Dr Cooper and his two kids Jay and Lila are out to retrieve the lost treasure of Kachi-Tochetin (Toco-Rey), hidden somewhere in a Central American jungle and to find out what happened to another search team that died mysteriously. They find more than treasure, however, and dig up a fatal curse as well, which threatens to end all of their lives prematurely.

Plot

Dr Cooper meets with a man at the Langley Memorial Art Museum in New York. He wishes to hire Dr Cooper to retrieve valuable artwork from Central America that was recovered from the tomb of Toco-Rey, an Olteca king who died nearly 1200 years ago. Dr Ben Cory was sent to find the city, following a map left by Jose de Carlon, who rediscovered the city in 1536, but whose men succumbed to madness shortly thereafter. Cory is also missing.