I read the Reichwein book. The writing and editing is not as badly done as one might expect. It's a little worse than a newly-written 'Clive Cussler' book that one might find discarded in an airport.
The narrative structure is terrible. Most plot points are simply resolved within one chapter, or if not, in two (sometimes the 'drama' starts in the first and then is resolved entirely within another later chapter). One chapter, less than a page, is a character who never really plays any real role in the story describing his own death. Much of the 'color' to the story appears to be taken from some sort of diary notes Reichwein made on a short package tour of a Peruvian native village and a rainforest.
My favorite character is the Rashida Talib/Ilhan Omar mashup who is from Haiti and practices 'Muslim witchcraft'. Not sure why the character is from Haiti, perhaps Reichwein is just conflating brown people = Islam? Intriguing. The only other fun characters are the Shining Path guerrillas, who are pretty cool.
The most realistic part of the story is that Laura Loomer is shown diming sources out to the FBI in an attempt to get insider information. The least realistic part is that she gets it. I think the author may hate Loomer.
The funniest part of the story comes in the very last chapters of the book, where Laura Loomer, having been banned from all social networks, is set up to be blamed for a murder by the stupidly renamed heads of Facebook and Twitter (Jitter in the book).
