News of a kidnapping - Gabriel Garca Mrquez

Set in Bogota, Colombia, the book narrates the kidnapping of a group of elderly women held hostage by Pablo Escobar's ruthless Medellin cartel.
Intense personal suffering and psychological drama are set against the backdrop of a chaotic and corruptpolitical scene. The result is a highly charged story of lives in the balance. This brave piece of reportage is every bit as engaging as Marquez's fiction.
'I have never read anything which gave me a better sense
of the way Colombia was in its worst times' - John Simpson in the Daily Telegraph