A Federal agent goes to Mexico to foil an espionage plot, but becomes embroiled with a woman and the anceint, pagan rituals of the Mayans. His raging desire could get him killed...and take our country down with him.
This was the first novel written by John Burton Thompson (1911-1994), a Louisiana native and World War II veteran who wrote 75 books under his own name and many others under pseudonyms, including Kevin McLeod, Bowie Morton, Gordon Greene, Todd Marshall, and Burton St. John.
Four vintage, scorching, hard-boiled novels set in the Louisiana Bayou...all in one volume.
It's the early 1950s. Plantation owner Colonel Bertram Fendelson finds himself having to raise Larry, his dead brother's grandson, after the boy's parents die far too young. The Colonel hires Eleanor, a local waitress who is college-educated and the target of the morally-righteous women in town, to tutor his nephew. But Eleanor is no Mary Poppins, and her presence is like touching a flame to gasoline, igniting a household that's already raging with resentment, greed and barely-controlled lust. 
A young, beautiful woman inherits some money and hits the road to find herself...and quench her passions.
Lecia McCauslan sought a tainted love that brands her an outcast. Although Lecia's husband desires her with ardor, he also lusts for Dora Jones, a wanton swamp girl... while his wife answers the irresistible call of the bayou, where she knows a dark stranger furtively watches her pagan sacrifices to passion...and yearns for her.