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This is a story of love and action drawn on abackdrop of revolutionary violence. Thenovel is set in Peru in 1993 when the country is recovering from a long,brutal, still simmering civil war. Theprotagonist, Jim Hiram, has returned to Peru at the request of an old friend, acollector of pre-Columbian antiquities, who has a job for him locating aspecial artifact. Jim had worked as afinancial planner in Lima until 1985 when he left after the Sendero Luminoso guerrillamovement brought the war to the capital from its sierra stronghold of Ayacucho,the Corner of The Dead. He expectshis return to be a short-term venture, but he is drawn into a spiraling seriesof complications and intrigues. He isalso drawn into love. Against the darkwine red canvas, the somber shade of dried blood, is set the bright fuchsia ofrenewing love. Through the maze of asociety reeling on the edge of disintegration, Jim makes his way by his wit andhis words. As another characterobserves, he is a smooth liar, but there are no lies when it comes to loveand its regenerative power for him.