A New Zealand-born neophyte artist, James Vallence, rents an old villa on the French Riviera not knowing that his life will drastically change when Kimberley Spenser, a beautiful young American, shows up at his door. Masked intruders break into the villa, James is shot and wounded and Kim is abducted. Mystery surrounds her disappearance and, with few leads, James desperately searches for her. Unsuccessful in finding Kim's whereabouts, though not losing all hope, James tries to rebuild his life in Paris. He cannot, however, escape a vendetta begun by her kidnappers . Others become embroiled...

Seven Caribbean tourists become pawns in the struggle for ideolgical and political control of Tortolona when a Cuban-trained army officer, Captain Martin Levera, seeks to overthrow the dictatorship of Mathew Duppie.

In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic fascism--rather than international communism--posed the primary threat to the nation. He even welcomed Communists into his campaign, admiring their commitment to peace. Focusing on what Wallace himself later considered his campaign's most important aspect, the troubled relationship between...