This book takes you on a journey to Southern Mexico with a husband and wife and their 10 year old boy.
Carol Iverson is working on getting her PhD by studying the plight of the Mayan people. Believing that they would spend a peaceful year in southern Mexico living among the Mayan people in a small village is what the Iverson's signed up for but what they got was caught in the middle of a war between the Mexican Army and the Zapatista Rebels. When Carol is kidnapped by Zapatista's, the boy is taken by a Mexican Army Captain, and Jim Iverson arrested for murder and thrown in a Mexican Prison, this book pulls you in to the underbelly of the Mexican way of life and makes you thankful to be in your safe, warm home with all the comforts of electricity, food and running water.
The journey to reunite this family keeps the reader on the edge of their seat wondering "Will this family survive?" With the U.S. Government being of more help to the Mexicans than the Iverson's you worry that this family will never be safe even if they are reunited and make it back home to Colorado.
This is a must read~and can be found on Amazon.com.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
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Hey! I just finished reading this book. It was really good. I was going to go to Mexico this summer on an echo-tour, but I think I will wait now.
It was so nice how in-love Jim and Carol Iverson were. Do you think that kind of love really exsists? I can't believe what they did to the guy from the Mexican army. I would have done exactly the same thing if he kidnapped my son...if I had a son.
Does anyone know if this is a true story? It seems like it is. I've never heard of this author before. Does anyone have any info? Has he written any other books? I want to read them!
Dear Anonymous,
This is his first book but he has another one coming out later this year. You can check out his web site at www.hayden-novels.com.
The River's Edge is fictional and did not really happen but the book is so well writen it seems that it did. Tony Hayden is a terific story teller, I should know he made up lots of stories for me when we were kids.
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