The third book opens with Chuck Burke fielding questions handed to him by Christine Wong, a local television news reporter. Burke makes it perfectly clear the arrest would have been a textbook exercise, except for the wrench thrown into the system by one of those 'vigilante types'.
Burke tells Christine he has a state department employee in the lock up at the state police headquarters.
Andy Howell's team members in the Action Officer's unit at Langley realize Andy never has and never will have anything to do with drugs. Unfortunately for Andy, Chuck Burke's routine arrest turned into a tragedy of bad publicity! What is Burke to do? With the cooperation of the Psychiatrist who labeled Buster Knowles a harmless hippie. He launches an investigation into Andy's character. Is Major Andrew George Howell, Action Officer in the Central Intelligence Agency fit for worldwide duty?
While Andy dog paddles upstream against a hostile bureaucracy. The Sinaloa gang members find themselves in a quandary. The youngest member of their gang, Theodore 'Tepo' Nayari is dead. How do they claim the body? How do they tell Tepo's parents their son lost his life in a drug deal gone bad?
Tepo's older brother, Francesco 'Frankie' Nayari calls down to his parents' home in Bogota, Columbia. Frankie lies to his father and his mother. Don Alberto Nayari and his former New York City fashion model mother- Angelina Nayari. Frankie says they were hard at work rescuing Ali Leon's son from his drug dealing and dissolute wife. The woman promised to return Ali's son in an exchange for cash and drugs. Instead, the woman sets them up in a gun battle with the Drug Enforcement Agency! By Jeff Dejent in association with Dynamic Entry Productions, LLC