Crack in the Devil's Mirror

9781592863631

1592863639

An American travel agent is unwittingly caught up in the clandestine operations of the CIA and several factions of the Shining Path guerrilla movement. He learns the cocaine cartels are trading coke for weapons to finance training of the cell groups. While searching for an old friend and mentor, he is imprisoned in a private sanitarium deep in the Amazon selva. He suffers life-threatening beatings and humiliation at his captors' hands and escapes to the mountain home of his nurse, where she nurses him back to health and they experience a super-bonding of love at first sight. She is killed in the most destructive and devastating avalanche ever to strike Peru. Her death is the first of several fateful events, including the death of his mentor and the foreboding discovery that his good friend may have slain his own family. The chance meeting in a logging whorehouse provides information that will stun all parties. The story ends where it began-in the swirling snow that dances across the bare headstones of Arlington National Cemetery.