US Army Delta Force Major Tom Wild has never played by the rules and he's not about to start now. Why should he when adhering to the rules accomplished nothing for a close friend, except that friend's death? Tom has spent precious weeks setting up his own cover, even going so far as to arrange a deal to reduce a small-time terrorist's prison term for an introduction into the shady underworld of Panamanian terrorist Luis Ortiz. So far, Luis and his thugs have been minor players on the Panamanian criminal scene. But before Tom's friend was murdered, his friend learned that Luis gained a wealthy but unknown sponsor-and was promptly tasked with a deadly but equally unknown mission. Tom has no idea when the cowardly act is supposed to go down and he'll do whatever it takes to obtain the information, even if it means courting Luis' trusted cousin Anna Shale straight into bed if need be. As far as Tom is concerned, he has no choice. The sultry beauty is the budding terrorist's only weakness. That Anna is also a former US Navy lieutenant suspected of passing military secrets to her cousin will make taking the both of them down-as well as Tom's personal revenge for his buddy's death-all the sweeter...