The Panama Affair

Lucinda Leung, a Chinese born American journalist has been covering the civil war in Colombia. Her marriage is in tatters, her future career prospects questionable. She is reassigned to a politically unstable Panama. And into Panama too come Mohan Krishnaswami, the man responsible for her fathers death many years before. So does Peter Morrison, a recently redundant employee of Mohan, drawn to help a relative, with a son on the run from twisted justice. While the almost bankrupt Mohan is drawn into a web of dubious business schemes, assisting a Colombian drug baroness and her hideous playboy son with designs on removing the president of Panama, Lucinda uncovers an even more dangerous plot to further destabilize the entire region. Tension builds, while we move from Bogota to London, and back in time to 1987 Hong Kong and Guangzhou: Then in a whirlwind of entwined events to Houston, Panama, Miami, North Korea, the Colombian Andes, and the Caribbean. And the prizes? For some, if they succeed, the riches that may flow from the devastation of the Panama Canal. For Lucinda, a distant vengeance for her fathers death and, perhaps, fulfillment in love.