The international drug trade is estimated to exceed four hundred billion dollars annually. With astronomical profit margins and insatiable demand, that underground economy provides unique opportunities for those on the 'shadowy" side of America's 'war on drugs" to control world events and influence the global power structure. Just don't get caught with your hands in their cookie jar.

It's 1972, and when Jeff Patten receives an urgent-albeit unusual-request from a new client, he agrees to drop what he's doing and fly half-way across the country to retrieve a large cash investment for a new...