The Judas Syndrome
Sometimes only in betrayal is love even possible.

Joshua McAdams knows how to hate, especially authority. So when he
graduates from Stanford and joins an anti-American guerrilla insurgency
in Colombia, he must learn how to love, or lose everything.

Present day: the Drug War has failed. Two Stanford students on vacation
in Colombia are kidnapped by a new guerrilla group fighting to legalize
cocaine production. When it turns out their leader is Joshua's old
mentor from Stanford, he decides to join the guerrillas. Together they
recruit and train other backpackers to carry out a series of bombings in
Bogotá. Success is within reach -- the president of Venezuela threatens
to invade if the group's demands are not met -- but there is a spy in
their midst. Captured by American commandos, Joshua tells the
interrogators his story. He is forced to confront the truth of what he's
done, and in recognizing his own betrayal, finally learns, too late, to
love.

Complete at 85,000 words, THE JUDAS SYNDROME is a character-driven
political/espionage thriller. It is about Colombia in the same way
THE QUIET AMERICAN is about Vietnam or THE MISSION SONG is about
the Eastern Congo.

I am the author of Lonely Planet's new guidebook to Colombia and
lived in Colombia for two years. Written with an insider's perspective
on Colombia, this book will appeal to anyone who's ever hoisted a backpack,
carried a guidebook, and wished for excitement on the road.  

I am currently seeking representation and a publisher for this title.