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A Literary Review, by Marylin Houle
Pain, fear, fire, blood – a far cry from the crimson indications of a place so understatedly called Red Zone, two hundred miles of restricted air space in Guajira, South America. When Alan Mcteer sets out on a simple airplane delivery job, the last thing he expects is to wind up a prisoner there. Tortured to speak of non-existent crimes, and imprisoned in places that could only be best described as hellish, Alan and his companion Mario are living a nightmare. The main characters, Alan and Mario, are excluded as not only minorities (strangers in a strange land puts it more accurately), but dubbed guilty of crimes they didn’t commit. What this book lacks in climax it makes up for in continuous nail biting drama. Alan Mcteer takes us through what is arguably one of the most life altering experiences a person can have. Red Zone really makes you ponder how the choice of a split second, on a decision that seems only a minor detail, can somehow become the deciding factor in the course of events that has become your life. Red Zone is such a see-saw of unexpected circumstances, with the turn of each page, you will find yourself forgetting to exhale. Would they escape, or would they be forced to blend in and become one of them? And who is out there that knows they are trapped, and cares enough to come rescue them? Alan Mcteer’s Red Zone is an autobiography of real life horror, true crime, and multifaceted corruption in a place far, far from the privileges of the land of the free, and the comforts of home.
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