The Moles. The MRTA Escape from Canto Grande

"It seemed like madness to dig a tunnel nearly four city blocks long, from outside the prison inward. They went underground and barely came up until it was finished. While life went on as usual at the surface, they dug as never before. Nobody heard the sounds of the tunnel, and by the time they were heard inside the prison, it was already too late. Guillermo Thorndike, the novelist who covered the murder of the magnate Banchero, the Peruvian defeat against Chile, the execution of 5,000 Apristas in Trujillo, the fall of Velasco Alvarado, now narrates the spectacular story of the tunnel through which the MRTA escaped from Canto Grande, on the last day of the football World Cup" (Excerpt from the prologue).