His name is Bart Gould. The President’s private spy. And he’s plunging into Caribbean waters raging with desire, treachery, and death.
Bart Gould answers only to the President. No badge. No cover. Just a quiet summons to slip into the Caribbean republic of San Barrios and find out who’s lighting the fuse on riots, kidnappings, and anti-American chaos.
What he walks into is a hot-blooded tangle of student firebrands, a nightclub singer who knows too much, and a grotesque hired killer guarding a secret financier with eyes on a twelve-mile strip that could outdo the Panama Canal.
Gould moves fast—through palaces, cantinas, back-country coffee plantations —dodging ambushes, shaking loose allies, and working his way to the hand holding the match to the unrest. Every step pulls him deeper into a plot that could tilt the hemisphere. And if he blows it, the President can deny he was ever there.
“Do NOT pass up Bart Gould. It is just too much fun watching him save the world. Over and over. What a guy!” Spy Guys and Gals
This was the first book in what would become the “Bart Gould” series of spy novels, thereafter written by Hilton and other writers under the house name “Joseph Milton.”
Joseph Hilton Smyth /
Espionage, Historical
