I've left him. It's over. If you still want what we've been talking about, I'm ready.
When university professor Markus Thorsen reads these words from the love of his life, Marisa, he abandons his work and flies to war-torn Peru, where government forces are battling a brutal insurgent organization known as the Shining Path. Once there, Markus hopes to whisk Marisa to safety-far away from her Peruvian husband.
His plans fall apart as soon as he arrives, however, when a Peruvian general shows up at his hotel room with a host of accusations. Markus has to face the truth: Marisa has connections to the Shining Path. But is her involvement by choice or coercion?
Desperate to learn the truth and get her out of the country, Markus sets off on a dangerous journey with Marisa that takes them from Lima to the Andes and on into the eastern jungle. Along the way, they are pursued by counter-insurgency agents, elite soldiers, hostile natives, Marisa's husband, and even a man with a large jungle cat.
Markus planned on his Peruvian reunion resulting in happily ever after, but now he simply hopes he and Marisa make it out of the country alive.
About the Author: David C. Edmonds is a former Marine, Peace Corps volunteer, Senior Fulbright Professor of Economics and academic dean. He studied at Louisiana State, Notre Dame, and Georgetown universities before earning a PhD in international economics from American University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Edmonds has spent considerable time in Latin America as both a US government official and a scholar. He's written five nonfiction books, ghosted two others, and is the recipient of the Literary Award of the Louisiana Library Association.
Edmonds and his wife live in Florida.
