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THE DMZ
by Jeanette Windle
Kregel, ISBN: 0-8254-4118-8, PB, 512 pages
One of the U.S.'s finest spy aircraft mysteriously crashes in the Colombian jungle.
Then an advanced helicopter and a Colombian military base are destroyed by a power greater than any the rebel FARC leaders are known to possess.
And why are Muslim countries pumping so much money into Colombia?
Julie Baker has determined she will never return to Colombia where her missionary parents died of cholera when the Marxist rebels refused to allow them medical help. Now she has the opportunity to jump start her carer as a journalist by returning to her hometown in the Columbian jungle. A team of United Nations forensic scientists accompanied by journalists will try to discover what killed two American environmentalists and their Columbian interpreter deep in the jungle.
During her trip the Marxist guerrillas of FARC capture Julie and another journalist as she searches for her parents' grave. The Christian women of the village who watched her grow up anticipate her visit and are waiting for her. She worries for their safety when she finds out that the guerrillas believe that she is a CIA agent and they are her contacts.
At first Julie cannot understand their assumption that she is a CIA agent, but, after several weeks with them, she realizes that the rebels are terrified the the United States will learn of their secret activity that threatens to destroy the United States. Julie knows that she needs to escape to warn her country though she does not know the exact nature of the threat.
Who is the CIA agent-- a beautiful reporter or the religious reporter? And who is the FARC agent who decided she was the spy? Why is the FARC guerrilla who saved her life so hostile? What mysterious disease killed an entire village of Colombian Indians?
The DMZ is difficult to put down. Windle combines facts of Colombia's civil war with a fascinating plot. She explains many of the intricacies of the political situation-- the drug connection, the Marxist FARC, the paramilitary organizations, the military and the civilians caught in the middle—without bogging the story down. Her descriptions were so accurate that she was questioned by government agents about her sources.
By Debbie W. Wilson