It started with a downed Nazi submarine and moved into the jungles of Nicaragua...now, the ultimate plan behind the deadly U-boat cargo and one man’s attempt to seize power in Central America teeters on the edge.  

All it takes is a single nudge to tip the balance.... Scott and Lisa are enjoying a sailing race when Jarvis is approached by a Miami business man. Ramon Tavares suspects that his fishing and shipping businesses are being used to smuggle cocaine into the country, and he needs private investigators Scott Jarvis and Lisa Gonzalez to discover who’s behind it before his life’s work is ruined. However, Jarvis soon discovers that there is more behind Tavares’ suspicions...much more.  

When men mysteriously break into two safes at the same time, and with the arrival of the enigmatic Colonel Grayson, it becomes clear that something major is in the works and a deadly clock is counting down to disaster...the ultimate plan to utilize the Nazi germs Jarvis discovered off Tampa is finally ready to be put into play...and everything hinges on an extraordinary ancestor of Jarvis’ who lived during the time of napoleon!

Catherine Cook, a 17 year-old woman orphaned during the Revolutionary War, has spent her entire life training and dreaming of the day when she would stand on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship as her captain! Although a preposterous notion in 1797, Kate is thrust into a series of mortal combats in which she must fight for her survival and the survival of her ship.  

She must win the key to a distant future in which her progeny must fight against powerful South American drug lords and stop them before the western hemisphere is drowned in white powder and unstoppable greed! Cannons thunder, steel clashes, and tensions explode in this epic ninth novel of the Scott Jarvis Private investigator series! Two narrators, Dave Alexander and Philip Battley, bring the present and the past together in a riveting and nail-biting listen!