Dan Landes is "ex" everything: expatriate, ex-detective, and exhausted. He has returned to Panama after a year of recuperation in the United States, ready to resume a quiet life gathering the mind-altering ayahuasca plant deep in the mountains. But evil is coming to Panama - or rather, through Panama - as a sinister team of murderers seeks to smuggle the world's most lethal biological weapon into the United States through Central America. The investigation starts with a dead body in a hotel room - a dead body that returns from beyond the grave to force Dan to find the killers. From the creative mind of Robert