Return To El Alto

by Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights

The year is 1986, and Claudia Wayne Edwards is living in relative safety in America. However, after the disappearance of her children, Claudia suspects Sendero Luminoso is responsible. The guerilla campaign in Peru has taken a downhill slide, and they want Domingo Cerro’s children back to lift morale.William Landon rushes to Claudia’s side and is relieved when their daughter escapes the terrorist’s clutches and returns to them, but Claudia’s son to Domingo Cerro, is not so lucky. While Claudia’s husband Steve and William work out a rescue plan, Claudia takes matters into her own hands and returns to Peru.William and Steve are hot on her trail. An old friend from William’s military days offers help, and they track Claudia to the Sendero stronghold. But life has never been smooth sailing for William and Claudia, and they find themselves fleeing into the jungle to escape the terrorists.At a time when life is uncertain, William and Claudia bring comfort to each other. But with the death of loved ones, it seems that fate will tear them apart once again.

408 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 19, 2021

About the author

I was born in the United Kingdom and emigrated to Australia in my teens.

I worked on a racehorse property below the Great Dividing Range in Victoria. I was living the dream, while reading books by Wilbur Smith and Dick Francis. My love of writing emerged early in my life.

While living in Hong Kong in the nineties, I attended creative writing courses and became involved in writing for club magazines including The Belgian Hong Kong Society and the South China Diving Club’s Buddyline.
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On returning to Australia life once again carried me away from writing and it wasn’t until a move to a rural property in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, with my husband Peter, whose photographs appear in this site, and our Bearded Collies, Elsa and Kuura, that my passion for writing was reborn.