by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
In 1964 a U.S. army colonel was kidnapped by a group of Venezuelan radicals who hoped to effect a prisoner exchange with a Vietnamese man who was sentenced to death for an assassination plot involving the U.S. Secretary of Defense. This political thriller follows the events and characters involved in that real-life episode. Especially interesting is the situation of a journalist, a member of the gang of kidnappers, who was assigned to cover the story.
characteristics
- Kidnap
- Journalist
- Politics
- Radical
- Soldier
- Journalism
- Good-guy
- Assassin
- Bad-guy
- Exchange
- Execution
- Abduction
