DMZ, The: A Novel - Softcover

Windle, Jeanette

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ISBN 10: 0825441188 ISBN 13: 9780825441189

Publisher: Kregel Publications, 2002

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Reporter Julie Baker returns to her childhood village in Colombia's demilitarized zone to investigate the loss of U.S. military assets. As she looks for answers, Julie finds herself lost in the jungle, angry with a God who seems to have abandoned her. Guaranteed fiction!

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From the Author:

As the author, I myself grew up the daughter of missionary parents in the outback jungle areas of Colombia. As I have researched the chaos and strife that is engulfing the beautiful country I once called home, watched guerrilla warfare overrun towns and villages that held childhood friends, wondered what has become of people I once knew, one theme has run repeatedly through my mind:

Does personal self-sacrifice still hold moral value in our 21st century? Does the Creator of the Universe have a right to demand or expect sacrifice of self or loved ones to save a hurting world? Exploring the answers to these questions in my own past became the motivation behind The DMZ.

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“Those who are not willing to bleed and die for what they hold dear will always be held hostage by those who are.”

More than a decade after the end of the cold war has chilled the Marxist rebel movements around the world, one hot spot remains—Colombia. Why a democratic country with a growing economy should still feel the brushfires of a civil war is a mystery to U.S. analysts, but not to certain parties on the other side of the world.

The inexplicable loss of three major U.S. assets draws the attention of the world to the Colombian demilitarized zone. Are the local Colombian rebels responsible? Or is a deadly Middle Eastern secret cloaked by the jungle canopy of the DMZ?

Among the contingent of politicians and media headed for the DMZ seeking answers is reporter Julie Baker, whose parents had been missionaries in Colombia. Old hurts and terrors surge as she revisits the place of her birth—and her parents’ deaths. When Julie’s own abduction by guerrillas triggers a time bomb that has been ticking under the feet of the U.S. for a decade, she is left with more questions than answers.

With the fate of two countries resting in her hands, Julie must put aside her own terror to face just what God’s call to sacrifice will mean for her past and her increasingly uncertain future.

As the child of missionary parents, Jeanette Windle grew up in the rural towns of Colombia, which are now guerrilla hot zones. Her detailed research and writing is so realistic that it has prompted government agencies to question her to determine if she has received classified information. Now living in Miami, Flordia, Jeanette spent 15 years as a missionary in Bolivia and has more than 10 books in print, including the best-seller CrossFire and the Parker Twins series.

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