About the Author

Clara Rojas is a lawyer and was the campaign director of Ingrid Betancourt's presidential campaign when they were kidnapped by the FARC in 2002. She gave birth to her son Emmanuel during her captivity but he was taken from her when he was only eight months old. After six years of captivity she was finally liberated. Clara and her son currently live in Bogotá, Colombia.

"My book will reveal the incredible harshness of my daily existence: living in permanent darkness and humidity, washing in ice-cold water, having scarcely anything to eat, dreaming of some kind of vegetable…” Clara Rojas.

Clara's experience was featured in the New York Times and was one of the most heavily covered stories in Spanish-language media worldwide. Any information that leaked out during her kidnapping was broadly publicized and intensly followed by a deeply committed audience.

Rojas is a hero in every sense of the word. Placed in the worst of situations she manages to reflect on the beauty of her country and envision a better future. At time when our world is in turmoil, this book is being released when it is truly needed.

Timely: Rojas provides an inside look at what a captive must endure when held by terrorists. Rojas' timely account brings depth and emotion missing from current news sources covering this phenomenon.

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