The Complete Delta Force Warriors by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.

Introduction

This story happened because of an escalator.

No, really!

The city of Medellín, Colombia had atrocious problems. It had been the center of Pablo Escobar’s drug-running empire, and his terror war against other cartels and the government itself until his death in 1993.

In the last twenty years, the population has grown from two million to almost four million people. And that massive urbanization has occurred mostly due to the agglomeration of slums around the periphery and the less desirable mountaintops that surround the city.

The commute for the service personnel from the slums to the prosperous core could easily take an hour or more, despite often being less than a kilometer apart as the crow flies. Roads were indirect, and transit was nearly non-existent. Essentially, commerce didn’t occur across a distance of a few dozen blocks.

So the city installed an escalator.

A thousand feet long, it connected one of the poorest slums to the city below in a matter of minutes.

Medellín didn’t stop there. Gondola systems were installed. Libraries were built at the upper end of the anchor points of the system to make them more attractive to visitors and instill pride in the locals. These and other improvements have allowed development capital to flow uphill and services to flow down.

What happens then?

Change happens.

The city has become an international model for innovative urban-interconnection solutions. Is it all perfect? Of course not, but it is a vast amount of progress, especially when compared to Escobar’s personal fiefdom.

To exemplify this change, I fell back on one of my favorite things—food. I put two restaurants side by side: one deeply traditional, one madly innovative.

So I had most of a setting.

Yet I also wanted to show the hard uphill battle (both literally and figuratively) that the city still had ahead of them.

Escobar’s empire was broken, but seventy percent of the world’s cocaine comes from Colombia. And a legacy as deep and intrusive as Escobar’s doesn’t disappear overnight, or even in the years since his death.

How convenient that I had just finished my Delta Force romance novel series.

Chad and Duane, a particularly lethal pair of operators from that series, always brought a sense of fun with them.

So, in this gloriously messy, mixed-up, changing, dangerous, exciting heart of Medellín, they helped our hero and heroine find a new future.

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