This is the story of a Bandit, a Priest, a Renegade and the inferno that engulfed a country nobody knew nor cared about. “I am in a powerful position right now,” Thomas Carroll, said as he planned to spread his visa fraud operation to more American Embassies. In nine months he had amassed eight to twelve million dollars, selling visas and flooding America with drug runners, thieves and rapists. He even had a branch of the Guyanese police - specialists in extrajudicial murder - in his pocket. The US rewarded him for using his network to track a rival human trafficking operation, and the spies who used it to infiltrate the United States. Guyana was about to explode and nothing could stop him. "Read all about it... Massive visa-for-sale racket"- Caribbean Life "Casavis's Book Stuns."- Starbroek News "Everybody that I have spoken to about the book cannot wait to get their hands on a copy."- Kaieteur News "I cannot put down your book. Compelling, great details, serious evidence of research and diligence, a few bit mistakes but a proper yarn. Will write it up on AP and others this week..."- Bert Wilkerson, AP reporter in Georgetown “Count them in. Count them out. Last year, departing passengers outnumbered arrivals by 8,131 at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana. Over a nine year period, the excess was 99,962 – around 13% of Guyana’s population packed bags, paid departure tax and gone...” Trinidad and Tobago Guardian "Compelling, great details, serious evidence of research and diligence... a proper yarn"- Associated Press "The Thomas Carroll Affair can possibly come to be a "historical treasurepiece" in the context of its bearing on the socio-political intrigues within the Guyanese society... it should be lauded and likewise, be afforded a deserving spot among other books on the shelves of any respected library."- Guyana Observer "The Thomas Carroll Affair is a valuable addition to the corpus of literature. Reexamining the conduct of the US Department of State, with itsbureaucratic blind spots, undeserved elitism, and serious failings which allowed criminals and, just months later, nineteen terrorists, to enter the United States."- Homeland Security News Volume 52, December 2013