Book Review

 

BOOK REVIEW

 

Title: The night Will be long

Author: Santiago Gamboa

Nationality: Colombian

Published: 2019

 

On a deserted road in the Cauca area of Colombia, a boy witnesses of a horrific attack. Although no one in the closest town claimed to have heard anything, the incident was reported anonymously to the prosecutor in Bogotá, Jutsiamuy. Two female heroes, journalist Julieta Lezama and her assistant Johana, who was in FARC guerrilla fighter, the prosecutor will embark on a dangerous investigation that, while they are doing the investigation, they will find suspects of all kinds.

The night will be long begins with a confrontation between two armed groups on a road in Cauca with very heavy weapons and luxurious cars, but there is a boy who is hidden in a tree and he can see all the combat between these two groups. An anonymous call arrives to the police offices in the city of Bogota where Julieta, a journalist and her assistant Johana, who was in the guerrilla years ago and knows the subject of weapons, war, confrontations because she has lived it when she was a guerrilla, begin the investigation to find out what happened and who are responsible for this attack, the child who could see everything that happened becomes an important piece for the investigation.

During the investigation, the journalists find different fields that are connected to this confrontation and while they report, these investigations mysteriously disappear from the police offices. Moreover, they start asking the community about the confrontation but these people deny about what happened as if nothing had happened, which makes the investigation more difficult and suspicious. Johana and Julieta during the adventure arrive at a church to find out about the case, but they realize that the church is beginning to have a connection with what happened.

Eventually, journalists notice many people attending churches of different names and although they decide to enter, they discover that the owners of these churches commercialize the faith of the people to make money, but also the conflict of each church as a purpose to have more people. Consequently, behind all this was hiding a big mafia with so much power that had influence on the police to eliminate any information related to them. 

Finally, poverty, violence, difficult areas, culture and others made people easily deceived, the child as a fundamental piece of the investigation was hidden because of the truth.  on the other hand, the child looks for his father in two ways as he is God and his real father to seek refuge It is difficult to know in the end who is behind everything, the organization is very well formed so that only two journalists will find each truth.

In conclusion, Santiago Gamboa mentions the reality of Colombia as the silence, the violence, the policemen bought by big elites, the business of the churches, the assassination and drug trafficking make this book more interesting about a chain of violence that Colombia has lived for many years, it is also important to mention that the war is a main key to money and business.