The President Plan

When Admiral Bonoris, elder statesman committed to a plot to overthrow the President of Vera Cruz, is abducted one morning and is later shot dead, shock-waves of political violence break over the Republic. The assassins proclaim themselves: they are the Third World's Christ with a rifle: dedicated and disciplined young people in murderous search of a new justice, against all existing political structures. But just who gave them orders to kidnap and kill Bonoris? Finding that out is a job for Police Colonel Pablo Ibarra, born with nothing but a belief in his star, devoted to his police work and his Browning. The search leads him to Bonoris' dark and lovely daughter, Adriana: to a police station manned by the dead and a farmhouse with Rouaults on the walls - but in the last gunfight, the tracks double back towards him in a mysterious and horrifying manner... Under a Latin American sun, against the skyscrapers and estancias of the rich and the encroaching squalor of the poor, young revolutionaries take on the iron Generals in a fight to the death. Desmond Meiring knows his subject, and has written a taut, absorbing thriller about South America's politics and people.


Genre: Mystery