REVIEWS.

Airline Captain and new widower John Carter casually mentions the name of an acquaintance at a bar in Grenada. The act throws him into the middle of an international plot filled with mad businessmen, intelligent Latinas, alphabet-soup agencies, and bad guys of every persuasion.

Cathcart's first chapter: the 1986 USAF strike on Libya, is a breathtaking hook. The chapters are taut, the perspectives flip, the clues drop. When the tale unfolds at last, the real surprise lands because the reader knew it all along and didn't know she knew it.

Highly recommended.

John Carter, a former U.S. military attaché who long ago left the business, unsuspectingly finds himself neck deep in trouble over mistaken intentions. Old contacts that used to join him against the international drug trade are hard to locate, or recently killed.

The author's real-life expertise provides an accurate portrayal of Latin American culture and history, and an authentic look at the operations required to interdict large amounts of drugs and money across continents.

Former attaché John Carter's friends are disappearing without a trace, and he's worried he might be next. With his girlfriend Gloria: who has secrets of her own, John tries to reach the bottom before the drug lords reach him.

Cathcart weaves an intricate story across two countries, with believable characters and a plausible plot. When he wraps it up, he does so with a pleasant, unexpected twist.

John Cathcart takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through Colombia's drug empires and FARC revolutionaries, with Lt Col John Carter, USAF retired, as your guide. Intrigue, double-cross, murder, and: yes, the mafia.

The author paints a troubling and vivid picture of how the huge sums generated by illegal drug sales corrupt officials, police, and the military, including America's military. The story ends with a twist few will see coming.