News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was originally published in Spanish in 1996 under the title Noticia de un secuestro a year before it was first published in English and is a nonfiction book which recounts events that took place in Colombia in the early 1990s. Garcia Marquez’ friends Maruja Pachon de Villamizar and Alberto Villamizar asked the Nobel Laureate to write a book about Maruja’s abduction. While researching for the book, Garcia Marquez found that there were an additional nine