Death Comes to Machu Picchu

Ten tourists find themselves spending the night of Christmas Eve together at the inn associated with the Machu Picchu ruins, high in the Peruvian Andes. They are cut off by weather from the world below, and they spend the afternoon getting to know each other. There are two lone men in the group, but most of the rest are couples--husbands and wives and a mother with her adult daughter. These tourists come from different walks of life; one man is a travel agent, another man works for the...
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Ten tourists find themselves spending the night of Christmas Eve together at the inn associated with the Machu Picchu ruins, high in the Peruvian Andes. They are cut off by weather from the world below, and they spend the afternoon getting to know each other. There are two lone men in the group, but most of the rest are couples--husbands and wives and a mother with her adult daughter. These tourists come from different walks of life; one man is a travel agent, another man works for the CIA, a Swedish couple work for the United States Embassy, an unmarried young twosome are university students, and so on. They are different from one another, except for one characteristic that each keeps secret from the others: They are all in denial about their dependency on cocaine and their intention to smuggle a small supply of the drug out of Peru.