The Walls: as seen from a mexican rooftop

By Annie Van der Pal

In The Walls, a school teacher from Los Angeles finds herself caught in the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre of Mexico City. In this story of love and betrayal, Marga Brinksma, returns to the "scene of the crime" in 2002 when she and her husband, Ben, retire in Mexico, a country much different from the one she visited thirty-four years earlier. It has become democratic and opened the files on Tlatelolco. A young reporter asks her to help him investigate the United States role in the Massacre, but before she can begin, he turns up dead, and a neighbor is killed. Marga must discover the connection, if any, between the two deaths before she becomes the next victim. She elicits the help of her former lover, an intelligence agency operative whose life remains shrouded in mystery. Soon she realizes that someone is always one step ahead of her, dogging her every move, but who and why? She must learn to trust her instincts if she's to survive. In a struggle that takes her down blind alleys and challenges everything she has ever believed, she must learn to forgive those closest to her, but most of all to forgive herself for a mistake she made years ago in loving a man who betrayed her, himself, and his country.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449571573
• ISBN13: 9781449571573
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.3"