Explosive fiction of a young woman whose marriage into a prominent South American family draws her deep into a world filled with danger, intrigue, and confrontation with the U. S. DEA. Guaranteed fiction! Sara Conner's Prince Charming, Nicolas Cortez, rescues her from a mugging and proceeds to sweep her off her feet in a whirlwind courtship and marriage. Then he takes her with him to Bolivia, where he puts his business degree to use in the family business. Sara had no idea the Cortezes were filthy rich until they arrive at the family compound. And she has no idea exactly how filthy the Cortez money really is. Sara's na?vete is stripped away as she realizes the family's connection to cocaine smuggling, and she learns that she is disposable if she gets too nosy. In her struggle to reconcile a loving husband with the horrors of his actions, she turns to God for spiritual answers and to a DEA agent to save her life. Despite the use of an unbelievably innocent protagonist, Windle captures the essence of Bolivian society, caught between "easy" money and the desperation of a poverty-stricken economy. Sally John's To Dream Again (reviewed on p. 106) offers a similar story with a more sympathetic heroine. For comprehensive collections only. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. "A highly credible account of the DEA's foreign ops." -- Fred Duncan, retired DEA agent "Action-packed thriller . . . Windle's treatment of the Drug Enforcement Agency's fight against drugs in Bolivia is impressive. Recommend to readers who enjoy fast-paced novels with international settings." -- CBA Marketplace, (c) CBA Marketplace, Official Publication of CBA. Reprinted by permission. "I was impressed with [Windle's] knowledge of DEA techniques. Windle's plot and treatment of characters is first-rate and CrossFire is a very interesting read ." -- Jerry Weeks, Sheriff of Pend Oreille County Washington "Jeanette has done an incredible job of transporting her readers to the teeming cities and steaming jungles of Bolivia, evoking character and atmosphere so vivdly that I feel like I have been there." -- Marion Stroud, author and European trustee of Media Associates International A highly credible account of the DEA's foreign ops. -- Fred Duncan, retired DEA agent An unputdownable read with a serious message. -- Marion Stroud, author and European truste of Media Associates International Windle's treatment of the Drug Enforcement Agency's fight against drugs in Bolivia is impressive. -- Joseph Bentz, review for Marketplace, official magazine of CBA, July 2000 CrossFire and its characters are entirely fictional. But the situations, settings, attitudes, and opinions in its pages, as well as the details of narcotrafficking and the anti-narcotics effort, are as accurate as careful research and personal acquaintance can make them. The drug war in Bolivia is an ongoing drama of real people in a context of greed and addiction, unimaginable wealth and economic hardship, conflicting political ideologies, right and wrong motives--and of occasional simple heroism as well. CrossFire is the story of that drama. But beyond the political and literary value of the book, CrossFire carries a message that touches all our deepest longings. A message of a loving Creator God who yearns over His children who have lost their way, calling for them to return to Him. What do you do when you hit rock-bottom and God seems a universe away? Do you run towards Him--or away? As the child of missionary parents, Jeanette Windle grew up in the rural towns of Colombia, which are now guerrilla hot zones. Her detailed research and writing is so realistic that it has prompted government agencies to question her to determine if she has received classified information. Now living in Miami, Florida, Jeanette spent 15 years as a missionary in Bolivia and has more than 10 books in print, including the best-seller CrossFire and the Parker Twins series.