DOUBLE TRUTH Two headstrong and flawed personalities, Jason Sims of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Colombian drug dealer Santo Trafficante, match wits in the deadly business of cocaine. Tiring of the spy business because of what he sees as a repeat of Vietnam in Latin America, the way agents and military personnel dealt in the illegal sale and distribution of drugs, Sims cancels plans for early retirement when a bomb kills his wife and young son in Puerto Rico. Phil Jordan, Sims' CIA boss and a Trafficante associate, had ordered Jason Sims to die, not his family. Driven by a sense of revenge, Trafficante is haunted by the forced cutting away of Panama from Colombia, the loss of the Panama Canal to the United States in 1903 and the assassination of his grandfather and former president of Colombia, Miguel Antonio Sanclemente. It was Sanclemente who was removed from office and slain for wanting to honor an agreed on Panama Canal Treaty with the North Americans. If Sanclemente had been allowed to serve out his term, Panama would still be a part of Colombia and so would the Panama Canal, according to Trafficante. Fired by the memory of alleged past crimes carried out by the governments of Colombia [his grandfather's murder], France [Philippe Bunau Varilla helped sell the French Panama Canal Company to the United States and arranged for the political break between Panama and Colombia] and the United States [the Americans took away Panama, the Panama Canal], Trafficante turned to selling cocaine to provide him with economic and political muscle. Cocaine could not resurrect his grandfather from the grave. But the drug could pay for the return of Panama and the Panama Canal not to Colombia but to the Colombia Drug Cartel [Trafficante also wanted all of Central America and former French territory in Africa]; and to punish families of key players who engineered this degrading loss. Assassins gunned down the grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt [U.S. President at the time of Panama-Panama Canal takeover], Colombia, President Jose Manuel Marroquin [the man responsible for Sanclemente's death] and Bunau Varilla. Suffering from work burnout and weakened more by small but lethal doses of cocaine prescribed by a fake CIA doctor, Sims was fighting a two front war. Not only was he faced with bringing down Santo Trafficante, he had to deal with a hard core pro cocaine element within the U.S. government who fought him at every turn. During the Vietnam War, Sims had attempted without success to stop U.S. officials from looking the other way while top South Vietnamese government leaders sold drugs to help finance the conflict. Three key players in the South Vietnam drug game were Phil Jordan, now head of the CIA's Directorate of Operations or clandestine services, based in Washington, DC; Gov. William Finney of Missouri [now seeking the Democratic Party nomination for President] and Rep. Bubba Wayland, who represented a black district in Kansas City. When Vietnam closed down, Jordan, Finney and Wayland moved their drug operation first to Panama and then to Missouri in a drive to raise money for arms to fight against Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua. Beginning with Vietnam, the three Americans were angry at the U.S. Congress for not supplying enough funding to end Ortega's rule. While Trafficante used them to sell more cocaine and expand his political influence, the drug dealer also manipulated key Caribbean and Central American political leaders, who needed cocaine money for their governments to survive economically. They were: Fidel Castro of Cuba, Lt. Col. Manuel Noriega of Panama, and Ortega of Nicaragua. Faced with solving the murders of three grandsons and the possible loss of a large amount of territory in Africa and Central America, President Jerome Franklin of the United States, President Francois Mitterrand of France and President Virgilio Barco of Colombia agreed to name an international team of top investigators headed by Jason Sims to seek out and bring down Trafficante. President Franklin, aware of the conflict between Sims and Jordan, authorized him to work independently of the CIA and agency superiors. Sims would report only to Rex Harrison, the President's trusted National Security advisor. After months of tracking, Sims shot and killed Trafficante following a face to face confrontation at the Colombia Drug Cartel's mountain and underground headquarters hidden away in the Andes Mountains of Venezuela near the Colombian border. With Trafficante dead and with evidence naming those connected to the Cartel, Sims relayed the information to Harrison in the United States from Caracas, Venezuela. Jordan and Wayland were arrested and charged in a U.S. District Court with first degree murder and drug trafficking. Governor Finney, successful in his bid to be elected President, shot and killed himself only hours before he was scheduled to take the oath of office in Washington. Presidents Franklin, Mitterrand and Barco hold separate news conferences to announce the world's largest cocaine operation has been put out of business. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ORDER THE REST OF THIS BOOK CONTACT NAT CARNES.