Even Silence Has an End

'For all its horror and injustice, the experience of the political prisoner held in inhuman conditions has often been transformed into compelling literature: think of Solzhenitsyn or Dumas and Arthur Koestler. Now Ingrid Betancourt joins that distinguished company' NEW YORK TIMES

Born in Bogotá and raised in France, at the age of thirty-two Ingrid Betancourt gave up a life of comfort to return to Colombia, a country devastated by violence and corruption, to become a political leader. In 2002, while campaigning as a presidential candidate, she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organisation. She spent six years imprisoned in the jungle - often chained, sometimes by the neck - dreaming of escape and trying to move beyond the pain of the moment and find a place of serenity.