Horse Latitudes Author:Morris Collins When your life vanishes, how do you do anything but follow it?? — Haunted by guilt and reeling from his shattered marriage, New York photographer Ethan flees south to a Central American country on the brink of revolution. Ethan doesn't know if he's seeking redemption or punishment, but -- one bad choice after another -- he finds himself i... more »ndebted to Yolanda, who gives him a chance, if anything she's saying is true, to find both.
Yolanda's sister is deep in the country's interior, waiting for a man named Soto -- a slave trafficker posing as a migrant guide. The journey to find her plunges Ethan into a feverish world of demented expatriates, intelligence officers, mystics and lunatics, where loyalties are uncertain and ghosts unshakable. A harrowing examination of post-colonial blight, "Horse Latitudes" is a lushly written tropical gothic -- part thriller, part nightmarish journey into the corruption at the heart of US intervention in Central America -- that peers into the world of Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Neighborhood" through the lens of Elliot Ackerman's "Dark at the Crossing."« less