A long time coming, this trip to Chile and Argentina. Of course, Hub had visited in the 70s on business, when the political situation was chaotic and dangerous, but he was selling sawmills and mining equipment and it was before the days of instant communications, so if you had work to do, you went and hoped for the best. Our trip this time was for vacation and for me, also, some research for my novels. In The Fifth Man, one of the protagonists – Markus – is seriously injured when his mineral exploration plane goes down near the Atacama Desert, in the north of Chile close to the border with Peru. Later, he visits the Swedish consulate in Santiago to renew his passport. I…

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