A story of the War of the Thousand Days

The year is 1899...an heir to a vast family legacy defiantly courts the daughter of a European settler. Unconven-tional in her view of religion and local customs, she has a mischievous curiosity for radial politics and is branded a liberal. Her desire for him brews tension with the matriarch as Colombia begins its early days in its most bloody civil war. Family influence gains him rank as a war correspondent in the Magdalena River valley, but the savagery of war has his pen replaced by a pistol. Heroics have him sent to the Meta Region, where he encounters a woman physician. When he returns to Bogota, there is a siege and he discovers the unthinkable. Teddy Roosevelt clamors for a canal in Panama, and Ricardo Gomez has led his mounted battalion into the jungles of the Darien.