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In September 2002, Mexican writer Ernestina Sodi and her sister, actress Laura Zapata, were kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico City. Deliver Us from Evil is a first-person account of the living nightmare endured by the two women. Blindfolded for much of her ordeal, Ernestina Sodi learns to identify the members of this well-organized, brutal, and professional kidnapping gang by voice and smell. Plunging listeners into the dark world of crime, rage, and violence without mercy, this real-life drama culminates in a thrilling and truly unforgettable climax. 

Deliver Us from Evil is one of the few first-person accounts ever published of a Mexican kidnapping. Blindfolded for much of her ordeal, Ernestina Sodi learns to identify the members of this well-organized, brutal, and professional kidnapping gang by voice and smell. Physically and mentally brutalized, Ernestina uses her wits to placate and even befriend members of the gang who held her life in their hands. Deliver Us from Evil plunges into the dark world of crime, rage, and violence without mercy, culminating in a thrilling and truly unforgettable climax.

Es la real y cruda narración de uno de los secuestros que mayor consternación ha causado en la opinión públicamexicana. Escrito por Ernestina Sodi y Laura Zapata, hermanas de la cantane Thalía, que fueron privadas de su libertad, golpeadas y encerradas con los ojos vendados, mientras los secuestradoresiniciaban las negociaciones para pedir su rescate