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James Jennings is currently writing the story of the severed hands of Che Guevara. It begins in 1967 with Guevara’s dramatic capture and execution in the southern hills of Bolivia, when the Bolivian military, fearing his hands will decompose before fingerprint identification, hack them off and pickle them in a bottle of formaldehyde.
Jennings relates how Che Guevara's hands escape the clutches of the CIA and are smuggled to Havana via La Paz, Paris, Budapest and Moscow. He tells the story of the smuggler, one of history's unknown agents who has finally broken his silence to reveal his part in the events.
In parallel with this tale, the book explores the continuing fascination with the ghost of Che Guevara. It looks at other historical figures whose relics have followed equally bizarre itineraries before reaching their final resting place. It tells how a man who fought all his life for an egalitarian and godless society was promoted to the upper echelons of sainthood, first by the rioting sons of the Paris bourgeoisie in May 1968, and then by an entire generation of faithful throughout the world.
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