The storyline

Determined to fight the drug traffic, the President ends up listening to his National Security Advisor: the United States secretly declare war on the drug traffickers : planes intercepted or shot down and teams of elite soldiers sent in Colombia to gather intelligence.

However, the Cartel has engaged a former Cuban field officer. When the man understands what the Americans are up to, things take a bad turn for the soldiers in Colombia. Clark and Ryan have to foil threats from without and from within alike.

Quotes (from the book)

Pascal

It is the function of police to exercise force, or to threaten it, in execution of the state's purpose, internally and under normal conditions. It is the function of armed forces to exercise force, or the threat of it, externally in normal times and internally only in times that are abnormal...
[The degree of force which the state is prepared to apply in the execution of its purpose... is as much as the government of the day considers it necessary or expedient to use to avoid a breakdown in its function and a surrender of its responsibilities.

General Sir John Hackett

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