Once again Keith was following older brother Don, as he had all his life -- but this time it was to a dangerous rendezvous in Colombia. Leaving the Ottawa Valley farm for the poverty and violence of Bogota, Keith gains a new perspective on his life, his home and country, and their roles in the world. With meticulous detail, this dazzling first novel exposes social, political and economic problems in the "other Americas" of Canada and Colombia.