“The
setting is superb…The characters are clearly defined…This
book makes an excellent book club choice, with pertinent questions
in the back. We rated this novel five hearts.”
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This novel is about the courage of five women – a refugee,
a journalist, a widowed mother, a social worker, and a teacher –
in Argentina’s war of terror during the 1970s. Their
stories unfold through the eyes of Stephen, an American banker who
has volunteered to stay in Buenos Aires and keep an eye on things
for his bank after most foreigners have been evacuated for their
safety. Under an arrangement with the bank’s chairman, Stephen
agrees to help the CIA to stop the main group of terrorists from
supporting their activities with the money they have collected as
ransom from kidnappings.As he begins this assignment he meets a
young woman who has fled to Argentina and is living under a false
identity to avoid being killed by terrorists from her own country.
They fall in love, and they try to build a life together, but they
are endangered by Stephen’s pursuit of the terrorist money,
and they are drawn into the war by his efforts to help their friends
who are targeted by the military government for “subversive”
activities. The risks and the moral dilemmas they face in Argentina’s
war of terror are like the ones we face in today’s global
war of terror.