In 1973, the portly, dark-haired, bearded film director Miguel Litt&#237;n fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, replacing it with the rule of General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet&#8217;s cruel reign was to last some seventeen years, during which Chile was turned into a laboratory for the economic ideas of Milton Friedman, leading to a society where the rich became richer and the poor much poorer, and the government was sustained by an ongoing reign of terror. In 1985, Litt&#237;n returned to Chile, now slim and clean-shaven, with a false name, false passport, and false wife. Pretending to be a Uruguayan businessman, he was bent on making a movie that told the truth about life under Pinochet.<br><br>This is the story of Litt&#237;n&#8217;s escapade, which was a journey to a risky and in many ways unexpected new country&#8212;and into his own complicated feelings as an exile. Gabriel Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez brings all his gifts as a novelist to the telling Litt&#237;n&#8217;s tale, revealing the unreal essence of life in a country where the plain truth was inadmissible. <i>Clandestine in Chile </i>is a true-life adventure story and a classic of modern reportage.