The Edge of America

Bobby West is on the edge. As chief financial officer for a Miami holding company and a CIA front he has overleveraged his business in the go-go 1980s financial culture. He turns to a deal-with-the-devil money laundering operation with a local gangster Alexander French-a deal which quickly goes south when $3 million goes missing. Now Mr. French a group of Cuban exiles and an Israeli smuggler named Adriana Chekhov are all after Bobby West to pay up. With echoes of Iran-Contra and the Orwellian surveillance state The Edge of America is a stunning thriller about greed power and the limits of the American dream.