Publisher's Synopsis
As a reporter for Colombia's oldest newspaper, 33-year-old Maria Jimena Duzan has broken stories that have made her a target for the fiercest organized criminals in the world - the drug barons of Colombia.;In 1988 she exposed the close co-operation between the drug traffickers and the nation's military, a story that threatened not only the government, but its lucrative aid from the US. In 1989, her office and house were blown up and her sister, a documentary filmmaker, was murdered by assasins.;This book is an account of a reporter's life in a country where violence is a part of everyday life, and where the drug lords who rule the country have declared a "total and absolute war" on the media and are winning - all the former members of the author's investigative unit are now dead or living in exile.
