Double Agents

<p>Espionage comes to the U.S.-Mexico border and Northern Australia and a family of intense and fiercely loyal Americans get caught up in the intrigue.</p><p>By 2008 a global cocaine cartel is expanding aggressively. In remote Arnhem Land of northern Australia ocean vessels trucks and vans move the cocaine to urban markets—and the cartel uses hidden tunnels to deliver it across the California-Mexico border. The cartel’s planes sea vessels trucks and drones counter U.S. Mexican and Australian law enforcement’s own technologies. But the Iraq War has disrupted transnational law-enforcement’s cooperation.</p><p>In 2009 the new Obama Administration seeks renewed transnational law-enforcement cooperation against the cocaine cartel. Rep. Sarah Donaldson’s congressional intelligence committee funds an undercover operation. She turns to old friends: the Berneray family of spies. The Berneray mother Diana and Donaldson were covert anti-Vietnam War activists. Diana now has clandestine intelligence sources in Arnhem Land particularly Malangi an Aboriginal Law Man who commands bush-country spirits. Her daughter Ann runs secret drone operations. Tom the son is Donaldson’s field agent in Arnhem Land and on the U.S.-Mexico border. And the father Vietnam veteran Jim has experience in all these places. But Jim mysteriously disappears in Arnhem Land.</p><p>Facing discovery and betrayal the Berneray family perceives Tom’s old adversary CIA agent Albert Jennings is behind the attacks. They confront the grim truth that everyone—including family themselves—can be double agents.</p><p>A new novel from emeritus professor of law and history Tony Freyer.</p>