Law of the Jungle - The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried

Zusatztext "Has the feel of a John Huston movie! with its mix of tragedy! intrigue! black comedy and! ultimately! heroism....fascinating. Informationen zum Autor John Otis has worked as a reporter in Latin America for more than two decades, and served for eight years as South America Bureau Chief for the Houston Chronicle . He now reports from Colombia for Time magazine, GlobalPost , and the BBC/PRI radio program The World , and he lives in Bogotá. Klappentext On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors crash-landed in the jungle-covered mountains of Colombia. Within minutes, FARC guerrillas swarmed the wreckage and killed the American pilot and a Colombian crew member, then marched the survivors—Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Thomas Howes—at gunpoint into the rain forest. The Colombian government sent 147 soldiers to rescue the Americans. The troops spent weeks subsisting on monkey meat and Amazon rodents as they chased the guerrillas deeper into the jungle. But then a soldier on a bathroom break stuck his machete into the ground and pulled out 20 million pesos—part of a buried rebel cache of $20 million—and the game suddenly changed. Veteran journalist John Otis places the Colombian hostage story in its full context, exploring the inner workings of the FARC, the U.S.-backed war on drugs, and Colombia's efforts to free the rebel-held prisoners. Law of the Jungle is an edge-of-your-seat adventure and a shocking cautionary tale about the pursuit of fortune in one of the world's most dangerous places. Zusammenfassung Law of the Jungle by John Otis is a wild and riveting true story of kidnapping and drug trafficking in the jungles of South America. Written by a 20-year veteran reporter based in Colombia—the only reporter qualified to tell the tale—this incredible account of “The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages, and Buried Treasure” tells the untold flip side of the story chronicled in the New York Times bestseller Out of Captivity . An amazing surreal-but-true adventure in the tradition of Mark Bowden’s Killing Pablo and Blackhawk Down, Law of the Jungle is, at once, heroic, tragic, and bizarre, placing the Colombian hostage story in its full and magnificently strange context. ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: John Otis
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.03.2011
• EAN: 9780061671821
• ISBN: 978-0-06-167182-1
• Seiten: 384
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; True Crime, Biography: general, military history, General and world history, The Americas, Travel and holiday, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Irregular or guerrilla forces and warfare, True crime: serial killers and murderers, Criminal law: procedure and offences, HISTORY: WORLD, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Political, TRUE CRIME: Murder / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LAW: Criminal Law / General, TRAVEL: South America / General, HISTORY: Latin America / South America, HISTORY: Military / Guerilla Warfare