The Reporter

About the Book

In this action romance, Matt Storey, a television news correspondent, his field producer, Nora, and his film crew are assigned to Colombia to cover the "War on Drugs"-America's holy war. Matt uncovers a story of "Watergate" dimension involving high-level US government officials colluding with Cartel kingpins in the drug trade. To keep him silenced, Matt is framed and thrown into a Bogotá prison for drug smuggling.

Matt escapes from prison with the help of his ingenious field producer, On the run, Matt and Nora team up with a money launderer, Raphael Marmelzat, a corroborating news source. A wild chase ensues.

Through their connection with Marmelzat, Matt and Nora come under the protection of the FARC guerrillas in the mountain fastness of Colombia. High in the Andes, they document the FARC battles with the Colombian army. Colombia is now facing the onslaught of a billion and a half Yankee dollars to eradicate the guerrillas in the name of fighting the "War on Drugs".

Matt and Nora grow closer – their relationship matures and develops.They stow away in a delivery of 1000 kilos of coke being smuggled into the Florida Everglades. Back home, they vindicate themselves and get their explosive story told.

About the Author

Stephen Fleischman, veteran documentary television producer-writer-director, CBS and ABC NEWS, produced the ABC NEWS CLOSEUP: THE COCAINE CARTEL reporting on Colombia's largest and most dangerous drug traffickers. When the program aired on the ABC TELEVISION NETWORK it sent shock waves through the drug world from Miami to Bogota.