With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua

by Christopher Dickey

Book Overview

On the seventeenth of July, 1979, the dictator Anastasio Somoza left Nicaragua after forty-five years. Finally, the family that had ruled and owned the country was gone. It took its money, which was much of the money the country had. The dictator left. The generals left. The colonels. They fled by helicopter and airplane, by car and on foot. By the nineteenth they were, almost all of them, gone. But the soldiers remained. And in San Juan del Sur,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439140073
• ISBN13: 9781439140079
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Gripping read

If you can find a copy of this book, I highly recommend it. Covers the authors time as a correspondant in Nicaragua.Reads like a cloak-and-dagger book. Hard to put down.