Martin O’Neall is a retired Midwestern crop farmer whose life beyond the fields has carried him deep into the river systems of the Brazilian Amazon. For more than twenty years, he and his wife have led short-term mission work trips into remote rainforest regions, traveling by river boat to reach villages scattered along the Amazon River and its tributaries. Those journeys—marked by long days on the water and the realities of life in isolated communities—have given him firsthand experience in places few outsiders ever see.
Drawing on those years of travel, Martin writes adventure fiction grounded in real landscapes, real logistics, and real endurance.