Publisher's Synopsis
On 11 September 1999 eight oil workers -- seven Canadian and one American -- in Ecuador on a routine mission to repair a stretch of corroded pipe for United Pipeline Systems were taken hostage by fifteen armed guerrillas. At gunpoint, the hostages were forces to march through the dense, snake-infested jungle. Constantly on the move, they fought hunger and sickness, feelings of hopelessness and despair. At every moment, they faced death. One hundred days later they finally emerged from the bush, emaciated and feverish. This is a shocking, surreal story in which eight men maintain hope and courage under horrifying circumstances, and in which gun-wielding kidnappers display surprising moment of vulnerability. It is a bizarre drama replete with fascinating characters. Weaving a captivating tale, this book takes us beyond the newspaper headlines to explore the survival mechanisms that carried this group of men through their ordeal.
