Robert A. Levey (1913-1974) was a WWII veteran and a freelance magazine writer who penned two other crime novels — Dictators Die Hard and Jasmine Tea. He lived in Lima in the early 1950s, working as a translator and writer for the Peruvian government, before settling in Swampscott, Massachusetts.
Passion and violence in South America's Wickedest City. Back in print for the first time in over 60 years.
Lima is a lush, exotic city pulsating with mystery and excitement, a place where American reporter Bob Johnson goes to briefly escape his sleazy Hollywood beat for some fun. But his love of women, booze and sunshine soon gets him entangled in sex, murder, and the vicious criminal underworld.