Our Man is Inside reads like a thriller, yet it is a true story: the spellbinding account of Diego Asencio's sixty-one days in captivity at the hands of Marxist terrorists. On February 27, 1980, during a reception honoring Dominican Independence day, revolutionaries took over the embassy of the Dominican Republic in Bogotá, and held 15 ambassadors hostage, including the U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, Diego Asencio.