About the book: 2012 / Lawyer Paul Madriani faces a web of international conspiracy, deceit and murder when he undertakes to defend the charming Costa Rican Katya Solaz, accused of murdering her, as she believed, the admirer, the elderly Emerson Pike, for whom the girl was just cheese in a mousetrap, - he needed her family connections... The Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, drug cartels, new American wiretapping technologies, the CIA and terrorist operations in the Middle East - these are multiple threads lead Madriani into an ominous reality.