{"product_id":"panama-paperback-1","title":"Panama - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarlos Ledson Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePANAMA captures the sweep of this country's tumultuous history. Moving from pivotal events in Panama's past to the American withdrawal in 1999, this is the action-filled saga of a man and a nation searching for their identities.Hank Duque is a third-generation Canal Zonian, a hybrid of American and Panamanian ancestry, who returns to Panama in 1989, after a twenty-five year exile. Immediately upon his arrival, a La Guardia intelligence officer, Major Carlos Mejias, recognizes Hank and knows of his role in the bloody 1964 student riot. Hank wonders how the major was able to identify him so quickly.Hank's odyssey takes him throughout Panama, from the teeming streets of Panama City to the impenetrable jungle of the interior, from the landscaped boulevards of the American Canal Zone to a squalid cell in a Panamanian prison known as La Preventiva.'Sal si puedes, ' Hank's Panamanian grandfather had implored. 'Get out if you can.'Now, twenty-five years later, Hank has returned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos Ledson Miller is the author of the novels: PANAMA and BELIZE. Carlos grew up in both the United States and in Central America. His grandfather was one of the Americans who went to Panama in the early 1900s to dig the canal. Carlos' grandmother was Panamanian, and his father was a first-generation Canal Zonian. Carlos initially attended school in Panama. When he reached his teens, his father relocated to Belize (then called British Honduras) and his mother returned home to the United States. Carlos attended high school and college in Louisiana and spent his summers in Belize. After a four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Carlos settled on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he now lives and writes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46633822585029,"sku":"9781419676215","price":28.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/TUExyQzHNU9781419676215.webp?v=1785380121","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/panama-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}