Clint Faraday, Nick Storie and CD Grimes, three retired detectives, finish a last case and move to an island just off the comarca in Panamà, where Clint has lived for many years. Clint is called about a double murder that was set up to look like an accident. Investigation shows that the victims were involved in some crazy scheme to blackmail the entire world! Ridiculous! - but there was an almost-SciFi invention once used by the Indios .... Could it work? When a genius like JK Kiley said it could? Could they stop the weapon from falling into the hands of anyone else? World society really could crash if that weapon fell into anyone's hands!