Story of a woman born into unspeakable poverty, who, against all odds, emerges as a woman of stature, talent and great beauty.

A former Air Force pilot turned contract flyer for the CIA, Joe Cullen has made his living running covert operations to Central America-until the day he walks into a New York City police station and confesses to the murder of Father Francis O'Healey, a Roman Catholic priest in Honduras. Dectective Mel Freedman and his partner, Hosea Ramos, are stunned by Cullen's story. Their investigation into this mysterious man and his puzzling confession puts their lives in grave danger. It leads them down a twisted trail of murder, drug and gun deals, government deception, lies and corruption in a gripping crime thriller and haunting contemporary morality tale. --Book jacket.

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