1996: a terminally ill father desperately seeks answers to what happened to his son, missing for twenty years. He has the names of two Argentine men тАУ one in Mexico City, the other imprisoned on the Colombian island of Providencia тАУ but no one to ask the questions.
A missing girlтАЩs family have given her up for dead when they stumble upon a Miami newspaper story mentioning two of her friends. One has just died; the other, half-deranged, tells a garbled story of sexual slavery on a Caribbean island which sounds suspiciously like Providencia.
MI6 and the British government are certain that a huge drug-trafficking empire is being run from the prison, and know that some of the profits are being funnelled by its Argentine тАШguestтАЩ into financing a mercenary invasion of the Falklands. Ignored by the Colombian authorities and mysteriously obstructed by their American allies, the British have no choice but to send in their own elite force тАУ the SAS.
тАШDavid MonneryтАЩ is the pseudonym of a well-known English author of crime and thriller fiction. He lives in Surrey with his wife and two cats.