Table of Contents
Author's Note-For Your Eyes Only v
Cast of Characters vii
Phase I Plan of Action
1 Overture - "The Great Game" 1
2 A Strange Kind of Genius 6
3 Aiming for Fidel 11
4 The Cutout 16
5 Spruce Goose and Brown Derby 20
6 Mooney 28
7 The Vegas Strip 33
8 Havana's Allure 42
9 At the Plaza 48
10 Fontainebleau 55
Phase II Covert Operations
11 The Secret War Begins 65
12 Bolita Dreams 71
13 Lie Detectors 77
14 Listening Devices 83
15 A Thousand Spies 89
16 What Would James Bond Do? 96
17 The Health Alteration Committee 102
18 Enforcing One's Will 110
19 Hoodlum Complex 117
20 Blood in the Bay 126
21 Close but No Cigar 133
22 Agents in the Shadows 138
Phase III The Patriotic Assassin
23 The Second Wave 147
24 That's Entertainment 157
25 A Secret Is Seldom Safe 167
26 Into the Darkness 173
27 Birds of Prey 178
28 Sing for Your Supper 185
29 The Double Agent 191
30 The Black Book 197
31 The War at Home 205
32 Spies without Portfolio 214
33 Dangle 223
34 Nature of the Beast 227
35 Death in the Afternoon 233
36 The Stuff of Legends 241
37 Government Immunity 246
38 "Boom and Bang" and Bust 252
Phase IV The Price of Everything
39 A Place in the Sun 259
40 Messages from Home 267
41 Prying Eyes 276
42 Blowback 282
43 Soldiers of Fortune 290
44 Keeping the Lid On 299
45 Silencers 307
46 Church Confessions 316
47 Missing in Action 325
48 The Last One Standing 334
Afterword 347
Notes 349
Index 384