A newly arrived Bolivian seaman is found murdered in a Manhattanroachhotel. An address book on the body lists three American contacts, oneof whom is private investigator Paul Finley. The trouble is, Finley has neverheard of theman or, for that matter, of anybody in Bolivia. Another troubleis that the other two people in the address book are dispatched in quick orderandFinley finds himself enmeshed in an assassination plot against a Boliviandiplomat.

Donald Dewey has written some 40 books of fiction and nonfiction, as well as contributed scores of stories to magazines and other periodicals. He has also had some 30 plays staged in Europe and the United States. Donald's awards include those named after Nelson Algren and the Actors Studio. Dewey is a widower with one son and lives in Jamaica, New York. At one point he lived in Europe for 14 years, writing screenplays and working for the Italian news agency ANSA. Dewey was editor of the ASME-award winning magazine Attenzione and was editorial director of the East-West Network, overseeing a dozen in-flight magazines and the PBS organ Dial. He has also been a theater critic for WNYC in New York and spends far too much time for his health watching the Mets.