Suspense novel set in California, the Caribbean, and Washington D.C., tells the story of Elena McMahon, a reporter for the Washington Post in 1984 who walks off the job and into a world of arms dealing, covert action, and assassination.
To please her father, Elena McMahon abandons her coverage of a presidential campaign during the 1980s. She agrees to act as her father's agent in a plan that leads her to an island full of drug traffickers and potential assassins.