IN EVIL HOUR

In Evil Hour is the thrilling story of a Colombian society menaced by rumour and
paranoia by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundre
d Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. As a small South American t
own sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the night
sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. When the contents of one poster l
ead to a murder, everyone knows that the town is threatened by a malevolent pres
ence - but is there anything that the mayor, the doctor or the priest can do abo
ut it? "In Evil Hour was the book which was to inspire my own career as a noveli
st.