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by James Siegel Paul and Jennifer Breidbart, a childless Manhattan couple, have tried fertility treatments unsuccessfully for five years. They apply for help in adopting a baby to adoption lawyer, Miles Golsdstein. He sends them to Colombia South America, to adopt a baby there. In Colombia after acquiring an infant they are kidnapped by left wing militants. To rescue his wife and infant Paul must swallow 16 condoms stuffed with cocaine and deliver them to a contact in New Jersey within 18 hours. If he fails, Jennifer and the baby will die. In New Jersey he finds a burned out house at his contact site. For help he contacts the lawyer, Miles Goldstein, the orthodox Jewish lawyer who had arranged the adoption. Further attempts to deliver the cocaine fail. Paul contacts Mosha Skolnick, a Russian mobster who may help while the DEA steps in to complicate the situation. In the meantime Jennifer is held hostage in a country house in the Colombia Mountains where she tries to recover the baby held by the Colombia drug lord. This is a chilling story of deceit and betrayal. There is great use of local color in exotic Colombia settings as well as Little Odessa, the Russian neighborhood and the Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. The fears and anxieties of the characters add to the breakneck pace of the story. The reader is taken on a roller coaster ride with Paul and Jennifer in their struggle to survive and recover the adopted infant. Highly recommended |
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