This book is a thrilling chess game between two international lawyers. One lawyer, a very well known British barrister (Stewart Campbell), is trying to serve a warrant from Peru on a former American president, John Harris. Campbell has "irrefutable evidence" that Harris ordered a group of thugs to invade an illicit drug factory in Peru and kill and torture the workers. Campbell's opponent is Jay Reinhart, a little-known lawyer--a former law partner of John Harris--who was just recently released from a suspension from practicing law. Juxtaposed on this scenario are two aviators--pilot and copilot--who daringly fly a commercial 737 jet, who try to fly the former president to locations out of reach from Campbell.

While the premise of the story is a little shaky, it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. There are surprises aplenty along the way. There are enough technical details about aviation, and about international law to infuse some realism into the book.