I could not finish "Pygmy" either! I'm glad to find another reader that had trouble with it. The English was
too broken, and even though it makes perfect sense for the premise, it did not work for me and I had to stop like you.
I recommend Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's thriller, "Relic". John Grisham's "The Client". Bentley Little's "The Resort". Well that's what I've got at the top of my head
