Matt Latham is a freelance journalist. He also has ‘an arrangement’ with the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS).
He’s asked to ghostwrite the memoir of Bryant Callahan, on track to become the next Senator for Texas. Callahan is married to Aleja Bisonó, a former Miss Cuba and 23 years his junior.
Latham travels to Dallas to interview friends, staff and colleagues of Callahan and then flies to Havana to unearth what he can of Aleja’s background.
He discovers her father, Osmel Bisonó, has very recently been detained by Cuba’s secret police. Latham is kidnapped, has an edge-of-the-seat thrilling escape – thanks to his ASIS training – and catches a flight that takes off minutes before violent thugs arrive at the airport.
While Latham is beavering away in the US shocking us with Callahan’s secrets from the past and his current behaviour towards his wife and others, we are taken back to 1986.
In the jungles of Nicaragua, during the civil war, a tiny village is the target of a deadly attack by US-backed Contra forces. Murder, rape, escape and revenge will reverberate through the decades. Retribution bides its time.
Reviewed by Clive Hodges
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Melbourne, Australia, the allure of a career in tennis led me to make a tough decision; remain home and become a CPA (yeah, really) or see where my tennis takes me. Tough decision? Not likely. With four-year scholarship in hand, I jetted off to America with delusions of grandeur.
Unfortunately, my tennis career was cut short by injury and lack of talent (emphasis on the latter). Consequently, it was time to put my hard-earned(?) Economics & Finance degree to some use. Thereby embarking upon a three-decade career in corporate America – airline and banking – before the writing bug took hold. Though you’ll still find me teaching the odd tennis lesson, old habits …
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