The Colombian Connection door Alan C. Mc Lean

Title: The Colombian Connection

Author: Alan C. Mc Lean
1. Title and explanation
The book is about drugs and the drugs are coming from Colombian.
2. Summary
Kay Duncan works as a reporter in New York. She wants to write a story about drugs.
Kay Duncan has an interview with Mr James Campaldi. He is the director of the National Drugs Council and he tells her that the cocaine comes from Colombia. Cocaine comes from the coca plant. It gets to the USA by boats or by planes. Drugs kill thousands of people every year. Drug addicts often steal money to buy their drugs.
Kay meets Mr Lopez in a bar. He tells about the man behind the drug business. His name is Mr Charlie and he is a businessman with farms in Colombia. He grows coffee and coca there. The coca goes to the coast and to the USA. Here the dealers mix it up into a nice white powder.
The next day Kay wants to meet Lopez again. In her hotel she gets a package. A man tells her that Andy Lopez is dead. He fell from the 30 floor of an apartment block, the drug dealers killed him because he knew too much.
When Kay opens Lopez` package, she finds a notebook in it, full of names and addresses, numbers and places.
Kay spends two weeks in Bogotá. Nobody answers her questions there and so she wants to travel to Santa Marta on the coast.
On the plane Kay meets a beautiful lady. Her name is Marisol Henriquez and she invites Kay to her farm - La Finca Hermosa.
The farm is a beautiful place but here are strange things: a big green shed, a very high wall and Armando with his big dog Rojo.
One night the reporter sees the trucks stop at the shed. The truck drivers load sacks into the shed and drive off.
Kay goes into the shed and find sacks with coffee and cocaine.

Carlos Henriquez an Armando find her there. Armando gives her an injection and Kay falls asleep.
She wakes up in a dark room. Armando comes to her. He takes off his glasses and she remembers Frank, a NDC agent. He takes her to a helicopter.
Together with Carlos Henriquez they fly to the coast. There they wait for the boat Pajarito. The trucks arrive and the drivers unload the cocaine sacks.
Captain Blanco from the Pajarito is from the Colombian police. He and his men load the cocaine onto the boat.
Henriquez orders Armando to shoot the drug boss. But the NDC agent wants to arrest the drug boss. So Carlos shoots at him. Armando is wounded but Kay gets his gun out of her jacket and shoots Henriquez.
Back in Bogotá, Kay Duncan tells her story about the Colombian Connection to the world and so her story can save thousands of lives.
3. Gripping scenes
I found page 31 the most gripping scene because Kay has got a story about drugs and she is going to tell it to the world.
4. list of words
shed schuur
shrugged van zich af schudden
elevator lift
connection smokkelroute
sparkled fonkeling
guard-dog bewakingshond
bright glanzend
clapped klappen
frowned fronzen
afraid bang