Kidnapped and a Daring Escape

While visiting a shady bar in Popayàn, Columbia, André, an investigative journalist, overhears fragments of a conversation about a planned kidnapping of a wealthy woman. Did he hear correctly that the female hostage is to be killed after payment of the ransom? Why? Next day, he joins Bianca, an Italian student, on an archeology excursion to San Agustin. She charms him with her vitality, and he falls for her. While being driven by Jeep between two sites, masked men take them hostage and march them into the Cordillera high country. The situation seems to fit the kidnap plot he overheard. Has he become its unintended victim? He guesses that whoever is behind the kidnapping knew Bianca’s itinerary to minute detail, and he does not like its ominous implications. How can he escape, snatch Bianca from their captors, and then thwart any attempts to being recaptured? But if he expected that success would mean the end of the ordeal, he is sadly mistaken when, on their return to Rome, he is arrested and accused of having faked the kidnapping and rescue in order to publish an heroic news story. An action-packed tale, full of unexpected twists and daring exploits.