When Penn Gwinn is hired by his former intelligence agency operations commander to find his daughter, who’s gone missing on her honeymoon in Belize, he wasn’t a link to another case he’s investigating: the mysterious murder of a friend, and fellow private investigator. Nor was he expecting to run into the CIA, DIA, DEA, and USCG, all of whom are involved in a Caribbean-based arms-for-Contras smuggling ring with ties to one of the most notorious porn operations in San Francisco.