
In the Forest of the Night
An idealistic American doctor is imprisoned and sentenced to death in a corrupt Central American country. Now he must figure out how to escape and rescue his beautiful wife, who has also been taken hostage—and is being tortured beyond imagination.
Trapped in a jail cell in a troubled Central American republic, Martin Springer, an idealistic U.S. volunteer doctor, faces execution. His “crime”: having witnessed the massacre of an entire village by government forces. His beautiful and determined wife, Katherine, arrives in the country with money in hand to try and save him, but she too is arrested. Her crime: Resisting the advances of General Vaca, the sadistic head of the secret police. Her punishment: imprisonment and degradation in a low-class brothel. When word of his wife’s plight reaches Springer, somehow he must escape from his dungeon cell, find his wife and rescue her, and kill her tormentors—and in the process shed some of his humanitarianism and take on some of the brutality of his captors.
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Book details
- Author
- Ron Faust
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 354
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Fiction › Thrillers › Espionage
Fiction › Thrillers - Topics
- espionage thriller · political corruption · Central America · wrongful imprisonment · escape and rescue · torture · corrupt government · secret police
- ISBN-13
- 9781620454367 (Paperback)9781630263607 (Hardcover)
About the author
RON FAUST is the author of fourteen previous thrillers. His books include titles optioned for films, and he has been praised in the Los Angeles Times for his "rare and remarkable talent."
Before turning to fiction, Faust played professional baseball and worked at newspapers in Colorado Springs, San Diego, and Key West. That background in competitive sport and long-form journalism runs through the tension and terrain of his thrillers.
