A Long Night of Death

D.A. Curtis was a Toronto freelance writer.

This haunting first novel is shapeless, nightmarish, and horrifying. It is a story of kidnappings and torture, of tyrannical regimes that sanction the invasion of private homes, the disappearance of peaceful citizens, rape and merciless torture of the helpless on small pretext or none.

The Argentine hero, Roberto, kidnapped to Paraguay, endures timeless sessions of privation and torture. He does not really know what is happening to him: and neither does the reader. The story does not claim to be an exact account of actual events, but itis based upon fact: the fact of life under unbearable conditions. It is also fact that “the period between 1976 and 1983 was ‘A Long Night of Death’ for Argentina and her people.” Certainly those who came through the crucible have little left to fear in a world they have found to be without pity or mercy. A painful and unforgettable evocation of horror.