Young Dr. Collin Reeves had forgone the "American Dream"- approach to the practice of medicine, wherein freshly-minted M.D.s usually proceed on to graduate studies in Country-Club-ology and Trophy-Wife Hunting. His level of youthful energy and commitment, plus the fact that he seemed to have no problem with "going native," brought him to the attention of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Red Jungle springs full-blown from the author's intimate knowledge of the miasmal reality that is modern Guatemala, with its dark, semi-feudal economic underpinnings--legacy of a 100-year-and-counting tyranny orchestrated by U.S. corporate over-lords. Red Jungle pulls the cover off the Big Lies of neo-liberal economics and makes clear the real reasons for the decades of underdevelopment plaguing Latin America.
The only ones who make it in Tijuana are the players-- the ones who live off the hunger, desperation, and despair of the others. Vincent Calhoun was making it. Why not? He was DEA, and he and his partner Castro, a crooked judicale, were making a fortune on the side as coyotes. It doesn't get any more noir than this!
The only ones who make it in Tijuana are the players-- the ones who live off the hunger, desperation, and despair of the others. Vincent Calhoun was making it. Why not? He was DEA, and he and his partner Castro, a crooked judicale, were making a fortune on the side as coyotes. It doesn't get any more noir than this!
Alex Law is lost; more than twenty years of secret wars and spying have left him benumbed and spiritually bankrupt. An alcoholic womanizer and veteran CIA "genius," famed for his insurgency techniques that helped win the Cold War in Africa during the 70s and 80s, he's an apparent anachronism in the current world of espionage.
Kent Harrington, a first-time novelist, unfolds a tale of psychological obsession. Character studies of intensity and depth reveal the neurosis of failure and the repercussions of narcissism and youthful bravado. Mr. Harrington draws the reader in an atmosphere of murder and mayhem, leaving us breathless with anticipation as we turn the pages ever faster.