Ploughing the Seas

In this gripping memoir, a young Toronto writer – without journalistic experience or credentials – travels to Central America at the height of the Contra War, on a personal quest to unravel the story of Eden Pastora, an obscure and independent guerrilla leader.

In search of Pastora, the writer encounters the fighters, politicos, and journalists caught in an undercover war of information and misinformation. Stuck between the CIA and myriad revolutionary forces, he ultimately becomes involved in a web of subterfuge and murder. Plouhging the Seas is in part a mystery, but more importantly is a poignant story about the destructive nature of ideology in Latin America.