In Search of the Assassin

In 1984 Susie Morgan, an English journalist, was critically injured in a bomb attack at a press conference in Nicaragua, just across the Costa Rican border. The conference had been urgently convened by Eden Pastora, charismatic leader of the anti-Sandinista contra rebel force at his jungle headquarters. 17 journalists were injured and three killed in the blast. Pastora, the target, miraculously survived. It took Susie two years and dozens of operations to recover, and, as she did, she became obsessed by a desire to track down the assassin - a man who had passed himself off as a Danish photographer, had travelled with journalists to the press conference and had planted the bomb, concealed in his camera case, only inches from where Susie had stood. A story which chronicles Susie's own emotional odyssey, it is also a dramatic narrative of one woman's tenacious and courageous struggle against the labyrinthine machinations of corrupt governments on every side and of the enormous difficulty she faced as a journalist, with no legal powers, to get to the truth: a truth almost everyone wanted hidden. Susie Morgan was born in Exeter, England.
She has woked as a foreign correspondent in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. From 1981 to 1984 she was based in Central America, reporting on the crisis for a variety of newspapers, news magazines and broadcasting networks including Newsweek, the Economist and hte Observer. Following the bombing at La Penca, she made a documentary film, "In Search of the Assassin", shown on ITV in 1988. This is her first book.