Pablo Escobar has a nuclear weapon, the CIA has to get it back!
In March 1987, the CIA's Operation Acapulco Cold took on the Medellín cartel. The journey would be dangerous. The alternative for not recovering the nuke would be too horrible to imagine.
... one of the best political/military/black ops thriller for over a decade. Stingers used to assassinate the US Ambassador of Mexico... Quick scene changes, tension rising with each chapter, lots of strings slowly released being tied, pulled, and then twisted until-BOOM! ... then even louder booms - as the plot points are resolved and the bad guys, most of them, get their righteous due. Fortin is a master of brevity with a spot-on wit.