Less than one hundred miles off the coast of Florida sits a tiny Caribbean island so innocuous that no one with grand nefarious plans would spare it a second glance. Or would they?
Key Isabella might be small, but it has become a hub for the drug trade into the United States. For the Black Berets--the world's fiercest mercenaries--the issue of a billion-dollar heroin smuggling operation hits a sore spot they can't ignore. Arriving in the West Indies, the five-man team of American heroes is tasked with overthrowing Key Isabella's evil dictator without anyone finding out they're involved. To make matters more difficult, they soon bump into the additional problem of a police force just as violent and corrupt as the nation's tyrannical leader.
Michael McDowell wrote a number of well-received horror novels, including The Amulet, The Elementals, and the Blackwater series, as well as historical fiction. With Dennis Schuetz, he cowrote four detective novels under the pseudonym Nathan Aldyne and was also active in screenwriting such movies as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare before Christmas, and Thinner. He provided episodes for a number of television horror anthologies, among them Tales from the Darkside.
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