Translated to the Arabic, «Noticia de un secuestor» (News of a Kidnapping) by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014). It is non-fiction, first published in Spanish in 1996, with an English translation released in 1997.

«News of a Kidnapping» is a riveting non-fiction account of the systematic kidnapping of ten carefully chosen journalists as written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about the time of the reign of narcoterrorism by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and founder of the Medellin Cartel.