Butterflies in Bucaramanga: A Novel - Softcover

Tanna Patterson-Zs meticulously researched novel, a fictionalized account of the 1998 kidnapping of mining executive Edward Leonard by Colombian renegades, guides readers deep into the physical and political terrain of a beautiful but dangerous country that remains off-limits to the casual traveller. At once a suspense thriller and an engrossing work of journalism, The Butterfly Connection is a story of a man who gets caught in the collision between Western corporate imperatives and revolutionary politics and whose unlikely obsession with the beautiful blue Morpho butterfly proves the key to his survival.

TANNA PATTERSON-Z has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and a Renewable Resources Diploma from Lakeland College in Vermilion, Alberta. Her first book, Exploring the Creston Valley, was published in 1989 by Waterwheel Press; she has also written children's stories and articles for the Creston Valley Advocate and the newsletter of the environmental organization Wildsight.