Mexico Way - Hardcover

Moss, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671703412 ISBN 13: 9780671703417

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1991

Synopsis

A Mexico-based CIA agent discovers a plot by wealthy Texas wildcatters to Americanize Northern Mexico and works to defuse the danger in the face of oil shortages, political unrest, and an indecisive president

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From Kirkus Reviews

Moss, who sometimes teams with Arnaud de Borchgrave (Monimbo, 1983) and sometimes doesn't (Death Beam, 1981), cooks up a Tex-Mex thriller about secession and oil rights and dirty politics on both sides of the Rio Grande in which the hero is, of all things, a decent CIA officer. Texan Jim Kreeger is the Agency's man in Mexico City who answers a call for help from his daughter and thereby inserts himself into an American-backed plot that would carve Mexico's northern states into a new and independent country. The conspirators are the ultraconservative ranchers of northern Mexico and their bankers, the Texas oilmen who would be granted the rights to drill off the shoreline of the new country. The plotters also have the unwritten support of the good ol' President and those of his administration who see in the secession a solution to some of the pesky drug and immigration problems. Straight-arrow Kreeger knows nothing of the plot. As far as he can tell at first, he's just dealing with the usual back-stabbing and double-dealing of the druglords and the permanently entrenched, election-stealing, revolutionary ruling party who cut his boyhood friend, Texas's rough Judge Renwick, to pieces. But the reappearance of defrocked spook Art Kroger, Kreeger's nemesis from Asian days, suggests that the rash of Mexican murders has political connections, and once on the scent, Kreeger cannot be shaken off. Original, horrifying, extremely entertaining, and certainly no stranger than any of the bungled real-life geopolitics of the past 20 years. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly

When several national security officials, serving a likable but none-too-clever president, form a cabal and develop a harebrained scheme to overthrow a country south of the border, they set in motion the events that fuel this violent tour de force by the coauthor of The Spike and Monimboo . The only person who can stop the U.S. from being sucked into the sinister Operation Safari is Jim Kreeger, the CIA bureau chief in Mexico City, who has been left out of the loop. As Texan oilmen and corrupt Mexicans plot to goad the U.S. into helping them create a new state in northern Mexico, Kreeger fishes for details and learns that he must contend with a peculiar modern hybrid: the swaggering ex-CIA officer turned soldier of fortune. As crunch time nears, Kreeger is scrambling, not only for his country's honor and safety, but also because he has a personal history with several Safari "consultants." Although Moss occasionally lets his complex plot get out of hand, the narrative is suspenseful and timely, especially when he demonstrates how supposedly sane men can get sucked into irresponsible schemes in the name of patriotism. Mexico Way is a dark, funny adventure, one that seems crazy until it happens.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0671703412
• ISBN 13: 9780671703417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320