In this novel the author trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine where
history dissolves into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963 Iran Contra in 1984).In that latter year
Elena McMahon walks off the presidential campaign she has been covering for a major newspaper
to do a favor for her father. Elena's father does deals. And it is while acting as his agent in
one such deal - a deal that shortly goes spectacularly wrong - that she finds herself on an
island where tourism has been superseded by arms dealing covert action and assassination . .
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