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Tanna Patterson-Z's meticulously researched novel, a fictionalised account of the 1998 kidnapping of mining executive Edward Leonard by Colombian renegades, guides readers deep into the physical and political terrain of a beautiful but dangerous country that remains off-limits to the casual traveller. At once a suspense thriller and an engrossing work of journalism, The Butterfly Connection is a story of a man who gets caught in the collision between Western corporate imperatives and revolutionary politics -- and whose unlikely obsession with the beautiful blue Morpho butterfly proves the key to his survival.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Tanna Patterson-Z's meticulously researched novel, a fictionalised account of the 1998 kidnapping of mining executive Edward Leonard by Colombian renegades, guides readers deep into the physical and political terrain of a beautiful but dangerous country that remains off-limits to the casual traveller. At once a suspense thriller and an engrossing work of journalism, The Butterfly Connection is a story of a man who gets caught in the collision between Western corporate imperatives and revolutionary politics -- and whose unlikely obsession with the beautiful blue Morpho butterfly proves the key to his survival.
Autorenporträt
TANNA PATTERSON-Z has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and a Renewable Resources Diploma from Lakeland College in Vermilion, Alberta. Her first book, Exploring the Creston Valley, was published in 1989 by Waterwheel Press; she has also written children's stories and articles for the Creston Valley Advocate and the newsletter of the environmental organization Wildsight.