Central America has never known stability and even the end of the cold war has not bought peace. In fact things have got even worse; Cuba is freefalling into crisis and in the jungle-clad hills of Guatemala a bungled op by the CIA is about to ignite a counter insurgency war. Political chicanery, institutional incompetence and the savagery of the jungle is about to put one Englishman’s life at risk and American policy in the whole region on the edge.
Surprisingly good. For a book grabbed at random from the library shelves I wasn't expecting much of a filler until my ordered books came in. But I thought it well written, good characterisations, and a compelling story. Not even my genre of choice.