"Harry Bayliss, a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, is torn between loyalty and love, prudence and conscience amid the cruelties of Pinochet's Chile.". "It is 1978, following the military overthrow of Marxist Salvador Allende a few years earlier. The Pinochet government is tightening its control by repression ranging from petty humiliations and surveillance by the police to assassinations and kidnappings that swell the ranks of los desaparecidos. These are "the disappeared," those who are imprisoned, often killed, vanishing without a trace.". "Harry Bayliss' supervisor, Steve Castle, the Peace Corps Country Director, orders him and his colleagues not to jeopardize their Peace Corps mission by getting involved in Chilean politics. But Harry develops a deepening friendship with Lalo Garcia, a young radical who had been detained and tortured, and with another dissident, Marisol Huerta, with whom he falls in love.". "Friendship, intrigue and duty take Harry from the center and suburbs of Chile's capital city, Santiago, to the docks of Valparaiso on the Pacific coast and Corolhue in the south, from Argentina's Patagonia to Peru's fabled Machu Picchu."--BOOK JACKET.