Through CIA officer Jack Lind, DEA agent Kevin Grady discovers that the CIA is turning a blind eye to its allies' drug-smuggling in order to further its own ends. So begins a conflict between the two men that reaches its climax when Lind recruits a lowly Panamanian policeman named Manuel Noriega. In return for using his country as a base from which to launch its anti-communist crusade, the CIA allows Noriega to become dictator, ignoring his ties to the Medellin cocaine cartel. Caught up in Lind and Grady's struggle is Juanita Boyd, a stunningly beautiful Panamanian, as sexually liberated as she is politically engaged, a committed foe of Noriega and a passionate lover of Jack Lind- until she discovers his undercover role as the power behind the dictator. Grady and Lind, men of honor both, become enemies in a war they should have been fighting together. From the glitter of Washington's power parlors to the squalor of the streets, from CIA headquarters to the dark heart of an international criminal organization, the reader is swept along on an irresistible tide of storytelling power.