Juan Pablo, a well-born aristocrat from a powerful Santiago family and the Chief-of-Staff at the Chilean Embassy to the U.S. in Washington D.C. meets Katrine, a beautiful young woman working on the staff of the Soviet Union’s embassy, on a flight to New York.
They date, fall in love, and are enjoying the buoyant surge of new love and passion to the fullest when they are dragged into an assassination plot by the Chilean Secret Police, DINA, to kill Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. There is no way out. The lovers are trapped between the murderous regime in Chile, the CIA, and the Soviet Union’s notorious KGB.Duress & Desire is a historically accurate examination of the events that led up to the car bombing assassination of Ambassador Letelier as seen through the eyes of Juan Pablo. History had Chile in its cross hairs and an entire generation would stagger under its weight. Juan Pablo and Katrine had found true love, but circumstances beyond their control would have the final say. Ambassador Orland Letelier, along with innocent bystander and co-worker Ronnie Moffet, would die in a car bombing while driving to work on September 21, 1976. Juan Pablo and Katrine were forced to flea; Juan Pablo to Chile and Katrine to the Soviet Union.