Death On the Amazon: My Memories of Eric Fleming  is a memoir so painfully authentic you wish it were fiction. I’ve used a narrative nonfiction style to describe the story of my wonderfully exciting years with Eric Fleming in Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Peru. The story concludes with his tragic death while shooting a movie in the Peruvian Amazon. When I met Eric, he was the star of the top-rated TV western Rawhide, the sixth highest rated television show at that time. I was a model, living in Manhattan and represented by Ford Models. The story is based on hundreds of letters Eric sent me (snail mail back then) while he was on location, his memoirs and my diary. Eric had arranged for us to fly to Cuzco and get married after the film’s completion and honeymoon in the Galapagos Islands.