Betrayed
BETRAYED
By Jeanette Windle
"Jeanette Windle authentically captures the sights, sounds, flora, fauna, and people of the cities, villages, and jungles of Central and South America.... She spins her tale as only one can who has herself lived and worked in this exciting and often contradictory subculture of the American Empire."
WILLIAM K. SMITH
Special Agent (Retired), U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
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"Jeanette's style of writing takes you to the place she is writing about. You see the smoldering fires of the municipal dump of Guatemala City and the beauty of the Guatemalan cloud forest.... Once again, Jeanette has taken you there and made you part of her adventure."
CW 3 LARRY TOMLINSON, SR.
(USA, Retired), Miami, FL
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"Windle's amazing skill as a storyteller is equaled by her knowledge of the complexities of Latin America's darker side. Betrayed is a sure-footed journey into suspense and fear illuminated by hope."
PATRICIA SPRINKLE
Author of the best-selling
Thoroughly Southern
and
Family Tree
mystery series
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"Just under thesurface of the vibrant beauty of Guatemala's natural resources lies a seething cauldron of political turmoil. You can experience it all in Betrayed. Jeanette Windle is not only a great writer, she knows Latin America. I highly recommend this action-packed novel to any person who wants to better understand the Latin world or simply enjoys reading an intriguing mystery with a whisper of romance. This book is terrific!"
DR. RON BLUE
Coordinator, Spanish Doctor of Ministry, Dallas Theological Seminary
Fires smolder endlessly below the dangerous surface of Guatemala City’s municipal dump. Deadlier fires seethe beneath the tenuous calm of a nation recovering from brutal civil war. Anthropologist Vicki Andrews is researching Guatemala’s “garbage people” when she stumbles across a human body. Curiosity turns to horror as she uncovers no stranger, but an American environmentalist—Vicki’s only sister, Holly.
With authorities dismissing the death as another street crime, Vicki begins tracing Holly’s last steps, a pilgrimage leading from slum squalor to the breathtaking and endangered cloud forests of the Sierra de las Minas Biosphere. But every unraveled thread raises more questions. What betrayal connects Holly’s murder, the recent massacre of a Mayan village, and the long-ago deaths of Vicki’s own parents?
Nor is Vicki the only one demanding answers. Before her search reaches its startling end, the conflagration has spilled across international borders to threaten an American administration and the current war on terror. With no one turning out to be who they’d seemed, who can Vicki trust and who should she fear?
A politically relevant tale of international intrigue and God’s redemptive beauty and hope.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Windle, Jeanette.
Betrayed / J.M. Windle
p.cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-1474-7 (pbk. :alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-4143-1474-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Women anthropologists—Fiction. 2. Guatemala—Fiction. 1. Title
PS35373.15172B48 2008
813’,54—dc22 2007027444
Printed in the United States of America
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To the real Auntie Evelyn of my childhood, who could ride a mule up the Andes, face down a rioting mob, and assure a homeless child of a heavenly Father's love, whose iron-spined commitment taught this small daughter of American missionaries what courage, love, and sacrifice are all about.
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