Alicia Rivera, a journalist and working mom in the tourist city of Bariloche in Patagonia, finds her peaceful existence shattered when her life-long friend and colleague disappears kidnapped by unidentified men in Buenos Aires. In her desperate quest to locate her, Alicia embarks on a dangerous odyssey followed by a shadowy man that may help her in her search. The experience changes Alicia forever when she confronts her demons, ultimately finding her destiny at the other end of the continent. I wrote this book in 2005, after the Iraq War brought memories of another war that happened while I was living in Patagonia, Argentina: the Falkland Islands War of 1982.  At the time, I was a journalist living in Bariloche, a southern city known for its ski slopes, beautiful scenery and tourist resorts.Until 2005 I wrote only non-fiction. Writing the manuscript of Incident in Patagonia allowed me to elaborate memories from the past and search for clues to understand the present. I found out that the story I told, through fictional characters and a fictional storyline, revealed many lessons that I believe younger generations can learn from the Argentinean experience. In the line of The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) and The Official Story (1985), thispage-turner touches a contemporary and ever pressing subject: The eventualrepressive power that can take over the government of any country, in any form, at any time. A gripping political thriller by Award Winning Author Isabel GarcíaCintas, set in the beautiful southern city of Bariloche, Argentina, during themilitary Junta years andFalkland Islands War, 1976-83. ISABEL GARCÍA CINTAS was born in Córdoba, Argentina, studied journalism and photography in Buenos Aires and lived for three years in Melbourne, Australia. On her return, she settled in San Carlos de Bariloche, in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina, where she worked for radio and the written press. Isabel moved with her husband and daughter to the United States in 1987 and lives in South Florida since 2001.  Isabel has attended many literary workshops and courses in Spanish and English at UCLA and MDC through the years. Since 2017 she is Spanish Category Juror to the Florida Book Awards. Also, she is a permanent staff member of the digital cultural magazine Letra Urbana.com Books: El recado  de la Mujer Holandesa (Spanish Edition, 2020) In 1991 Buenos Aires, a woman finds a personal dairy written in 1941 by a woman in Amsterdam. Incident in Patagonia   ( Incidente en la Patagonia ), a suspense novel that deals with the theme of the thirty thousand disappeared civilians during the military rule of the 1970s. The manuscript in English won Honorable Mention-Suspense or Mystery, at the 2015 Latino Book Into Movies Awards.  Del Mediterráneo al Plata (Spanish edition), a family saga of immigrant families Finalist at the Dan Pointer's 2012 Global e-Book Awards, Genealogy/Heritage/Ancestry. The Old House and Other Short Stories  ( La Casa Vieja y Otros Relatos ), a collection of short stories with women as protagonists in different situations, times and stages of life. It won Gold Medal-Spanish Category at the 2016 Florida Book Awards and Honorable Mention-Best Popular Fiction at the 2016 International Latino Book Awards.  Anthologies: Poets and Narrators of 2012 , by the Institute of Peruvian Culture of Miami,  Los Mundos Posibles , by the Latin American Intercultural Alliance, 2012, and  Primera Antología Cáncer de Mama , published in 2015 by Talento Comunicación Editorial of Spain.