Elizabeth Pennington has come to the war-torn South American
country of Callivera to volunteer at a tiny mission.
Kidnapped by the local rebels who are more interested in
ransom than politics, she ends up at their camp in the Andes
where she meets Finn MacGowan, member of the infamous
Committee, a covert organization dedicated to destroying
terrorism.
MacGowan has been held hostage for almost three
years, and he's chosen the night she arrives as the night he
plans to escape. When he does, she follows him, heading down
the steep mountainous terrain with another hostage, the
teenage son of a Hollywood millionaire.
Rebels, soldiers,
traitors and near-drowning follows them on their journey. As
they travel from the mountain fortress to a transatlantic
freighter, an old cafe in Spain ending in a shootout at a
farmhouse in France, MacGowan reluctantly falls in love, and
Beth learns that the cynical, dangerous soldier-of-fortune
might be worth saving after all.