Even silence has an end: my six years of captivity in the Colombian Jungle

Ingrid Betancourt

Betancourt was campaigning for the Presidency in Colombia in 2002, when she was abducted by the FARC, a Colombian guerrilla organisation. For the next six and a half years, she and the other hostages were held captive in the depths of the Colombian jungle. Each time the authorities came close to finding the guerrilla strongholds, the camps were packed up and the hostages were forced to march at gun point (and often chained to each other), through miles of dense rainforest to a new location.
Even Silence … is a gripping account of Betancourt’s captivity, her numerous escape attempts and her relationships with both the other hostages and her captors. Being held in such close confinement it was only natural that petty squabbles and personality conflicts would arise and it is these tensions that contribute to the pace, the realism and the truth of this memoir. An awesome read.

Reviewed by Jill