Marquez in real-life drama

'It is not exactly a case of life imitating art, but Colombia's most famous writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been caught up in a real-life drama involving a crime he just spent three years writing about, and it could end in tragedy. The Nobel laureate has just produced a heart-wrenching book about a string of high-profile kidnappings that occurred during Colombia's war with ruthless Medellin drug lord Pablo Escobar in 1990. Now, if a shadowy group of kidnappers is to be believed, he has been given the power of life and death over the most prominent kidnap victim Colombia has seen since the collective abductions he describes with a master's touch in "News of a Kidnapping.''' Read on.