High Andes
About this ebook
When he arrives in Lima a young law student mistakenly believes Wylie is an agent of the US government and gives him a travel guide concealing documents that show how the government is torturing and murdering dissidents. Wylie decides to deliver those documents to US authorities, which will affect the outcome of the civil war raging in Peru at the time.
Peruvian government thugs and agents of the Shining Path communist guerrilla movement are quickly on Wylie's trail, both eager to kill Wylie and his entire trekking party. Wylie, his daughter, a local guide, and his friend, an archeologist (who is more than he seems), and porters set out using various ruses to throw their pursuers off track.
Wylie narrowly escapes from the local police after being tortured and losing a toe. But can they cross the foreboding eighteen thousand foot high pass and make it to Cajamarca in time to take the only safe flight home and deliver the documents?
About the author
Rolf Margenau is a prize-winning author who has published five novels and two photography books. He was a Sergeant during the Korean War, a professional photographer, founder of a not-for-profit homeless shelter, ran big and small businesses, and began writing novels loosely based on his experiences ten years ago.
The novels feature Wylie Cypher, first seen as a twenty-year-old college dropout who comes of age during the Korean War. In 1980, he’s a successful but burned out lawyer with a failing marriage. He runs afoul of many villains as he begins a trek with his daughter through the high Andes in Peru.
Retired, in his mid-sixties, Wylie does battle with BIG AG as a Master Gardener, also befriending a group of eco-terrorists who help save the Monarch butterfly. In National Parks, he lives in a dystopian future where Congress attempts to sell off our national parks to bail out a bankrupt country.
His most recent story is a fable/thriller about the unexpected results of a medical team’s effort to prolong human life by 30 years. The book answers the question of what could go wrong with that idea.
The author has retired Wylie Cypher and is now writing about how young people with a German background respond to the demands of World War II, on the home front, at war and in a POW camp.
Rolf Margenau lives amid farmland in northern New Jersey with his first wife of over sixty years.
