Esperanza Angellini wanted to make a difference, and she thought she had found the vehicle to do just that. She joined former president Jimmy Carter's team dedicated to monitoring elections in Guatemala. The elections were made possible by a shaky truce ending a 36-year civil war that had resulted in the destruction of over 400 villages and a genocide program waged by the military that killed 200,000 Mayans, mostly innocent men, women and children civilians. Her eagerness to help make things right pulled her sister and eight brothers into a vortex of danger and terror that threatened to annihilate the entire family.
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The trio in Loreto's hotel room heard the three rings, noted the number on the caller ID, gathered up the bags from the bed, and started out the door. Before they exited, the former bag lady removed a small piece of equipment from her shopping bag, set a timing mechanism, and left it lying on the table as she walked away. The same cab driver was waiting for them in front of the hotel, except this time he was driving a limousine. They wasted no time in throwing Loreto's luggage in the car and driving away. They had gone less than half a block when a huge explosion was heard coming from the hotel. Debris and shards of glass came flying out of Suite 1200, Lore's suite, into the street twelve floors below.
About Richard Todar
Richard Todar is the proud father of ten children. He has usurped the first names, personalities, educations and employment skills of these grown children and thrust them as individual characters in his first novel. The stark terror they experience in THICKER THAN WATER is woven into a background of humorous tales of their youth which keeps the reader terrorized one minute and laughing his head off the next.
Esperanza Angellini wanted to make a difference, and she thought she had found the vehicle to do just that. She joined former president Jimmy Carter's team dedicated to monitoring elections in Guatemala. The elections were made possible by a shaky truce ending a 36-year civil war that had resulted in the destruction of over 400 villages and a genocide program waged by the military that killed 200,000 Mayans, mostly innocent men, women and children civilians. Her eagerness to help make things right pulled her sister and eight brothers into a vortex of danger and terror that threatened to annihilate the entire family.
Richard Todar is the proud father of ten children. He has usurped the first names, personalities, educations and employment skills of these grown children and thrust them as individual characters in his first novel. The stark terror they experience in THICKER THAN WATER is woven into a background of humorous tales of their youth which keeps the reader terrorized one minute and laughing his head off the next.