BITING SILENCE

I did this cover back in late 90s when small presses were everywhere and independent publishers gave you plenty of room to play with ideas without some team of art directors, marketing specialists and PR wonks picking apart your concepts until they looked like a rotting carcass. "The first novel from exiled Bolivian writer Arturo von Vacano, draws heavily on the author's own experience as a journalist hampered by dictatorship and forced to choose between silence and safety. It is a wrenching, provocative portrait of the collision between free expression and uneasy power."