"From journalist Kirkpatrick (A Cast of Killers, 1986) and novelist
Abrahams (Pressure Drop, 1989) comes a crisply narrated story of how an
American college professor took on one of the world�s biggest
drug-smugglers in a scenic Bahamian resort.
In many respects, this is a story about a hero fighting for a virgin�s
honor--only here the hero, Richard Novak, set out to protect the "virginal
island" of Norman�s Cay. On a scuba-diving sabbatical, with the intention
of tackling only the island�s notorious hammerhead sharks, Novak instead
came face to face with psychotic drug kingpin Carlos Lehder, then a top
member of Colombia�s Medellin cartel. Pressure by Lehder to leave the
island, Novak, who�d turned without success to the Bahamian police, was
subsequently contacted by the DEA to spy on the drug smuggler. Compared to
Lehder and his cold and crafty maneuvers, Novak appears here as an
officious do-gooder facing mounting "disorientation in a corrupt world
where no one could be trusted." But his penchant for "doing the right
thing" paid off when one night, against orders, he donned scuba gear and
entered the shark-infested waters to spy on Lehder, eventually witnessing
the organization of a large airborne drug-smuggling operation�a sighting
leading to enough incriminating evidence to drive Lehder off the island.
(Today, due to unrelated events, Lehder languishes in an American jail.)
Kirkpatrick and Abrahams tell their story with cinematic precision, using
the lush exotic landscape as the perfect background for their suspenseful,
moonlit tale."
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