Wiilson
Author:
Enar BensonPublisher:
Fountain Pen Partners, Inc.Publication Date:
04-08-2013ISBN:
9780984726523Subjects:
FictionGeneral
Available as:
Electronic book text, 9780984726523Description:
Wiilson continues the story of poor Oscar Becarra, who was unjustly accused of being a terrorist. When Oscar is finally freed from prison, he is returned to his childhood home in Colombia. However, the governments of America, Colombia, and Mexico are still suspicious of him, and watch his every move. Oscar wants nothing more than to live out his remaining days in peace. Broken by torture, Oscar can barely walk, and struggles to make enough money to pay for food.
Wiilson is just a kid living on the beach in Colombia, who dreams of having a career in Major League baseball. Although his dreams of playing are eventually shattered, Wiilson finds a way out of poverty by making money transporting contraband up and down the coast.
Meanwhile Maria, Oscar’s estranged wife, gets more caught up in the drug and weapons trade than she ever wanted when her father, Santiago, gets kidnapped by the FARC. She must somehow negotiate the release of her father in exchange for the purchase, transport, and delivery of ten ground-to-air missiles.
Woven throughout the story, we learn more about DEA agent Rafael Blanco and his quest to find the truth about drug traffickers and supposed terrorists. He struggles with the guilt of having his informants murdered, his friends deported, and his admirers disappointed. His frustrations with the inability of his superiors to grasp the big picture lead him to question his own motives and career choice.
In this sequel to Pargo and Sapo, Wiilson tells the tale of drug seizures, false bravado, and kidnapping, It shows us the story of young people in Mexico and Colombia who find that the only way to get out of poverty or save those they love is to pursue illegal activities.
Wiilson is the third and final book in The Red, Blue and White Trilogy: A Tale of American Self-Deception. The trilogy is a fictionalized accounting of the wars on drugs and terror, of foreign officials who are driven by greed, and of American officials who are driven by ambition and their skewered view of the world.
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