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Good. 444, [4] pages. Includes Prologue, Since Then..., and chapters include Lind's Tape; Casey at the Bat; Kevin Grady's Sting; A Fine White Powder; Ramon's Run; Hell in a Little Class vial; Operation Medclean; A Package from Medellin; The Woman in Suite #51; The Samurai's Choice; Since Then...; and Acknowledgments. Kevin Grady is the idealistic agent for the DEA. Jack Lind is the hard-edged agent of the CIA, dedicated to furthering the national cause. These two heroes will find themselves on opposite sides of the same war. Derived from a Kirkus review: Collins blends fact with fancy, plausibly presenting how Nicaraguan contras were financed, and the importance of Panama for laundered money as well as narcotics. It's in 1988 Laos that Lind first confronts Kevin Grady, a dedicated DEA agent. Lind recruited promising young officer Manuel Antonio Noriega as the CIA's man in Panama. Noriega gains power and influence, becoming an invaluable source of intelligence. By the time the Reagan Administration decides to make Panama the keystone of its anti-Sandinista campaign, then, agency people like Lind have turned a blind eye to Noriega's involvement with dope traffickers. Grady continues to stalk big-time drug dealers. Lind warns Noriega of the DEA's investigation; who promptly orders the murder of an opponent of his regime. Lind is forced to face the consequences of actions he's taken in the national interest...just as Grady arrives with a warrant for his arrest. An engrossing, wide-angle yarn that could help confirm many conspiracy theorists' wilder suspicions and speculations. Larry Collins, born John Lawrence Collins Jr., (September 14, 1929-June 20, 2005) was an American writer. While serving in the public affairs office of the Allied Headquarters in Paris, from 1953 to 1955, he met Dominique Lapierre with whom he would write several best-sellers over 43 years. In 1959, he joined Newsweek as Middle East editor, based in New York City. He became the Paris bureau chief in 1961, where he would work until 1964, until he switched to writing books. In 1965, Collins and Dominique Lapierre published their first joint work, Is Paris Burning? , a tale of Nazi occupation of the French capital during World War II and Hitler's plans to destroy Paris should it fall into the hands of the Allies. In 1967, they co-authored Or I'll Dress you in Mourning about the Spanish bullfighter Manuel Benítez El Cordobés. In 1972, after five years' research and interviews, they published O Jerusalem! about the birth of Israel in 1948. In 1975, they published Freedom at Midnight, a story of the Indian Independence in 1947, and the subsequent assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. The duo published their first fictional work, The Fifth Horseman, in 1981. It describes a terrorist attack on New York masterminded by Libya's Colonel Gaddafi. The book had such a shocking effect that the French President canceled the sale of nuclear reactors to Libya, even though it was meant for peaceful purposes. In 1985, Collins authored Fall from Grace (without Lapierre) about a woman agent sent into occupied France who realizes she may be betrayed by her British masters if necessary. He also wrote Maze: A Novel (1989), and Black Eagles (1992), a semi-fictional novel about two conflicted American agents in Manuel Noreiga´s Panama. He also wrote Le Jour Du Miracle: D-Day Paris (1994) and Tomorrow Belongs To Us (1998). Shortly before his death, he collaborated with Lapierre on Is New York Burning? (2005), a novel mixing fictional characters and real-life figures that speculates about a terrorist attack on New York City.
