A NIGHTMAREIN AMERICA’S BACKYARD After a bloody massacre of his students, teacher Lucio Serdan took to the Mexican mountains and the life of an outlaw. To CIA agent Beno Alvarado, Serdan is one of the good guys – at least he’s fighting the drugs trade. But to CIA station chief Fred Lowry, he’s a communist terrorist, while heroin trafficker Alfredo Mendoza is the best possible candidate for the office of Mexican president. Then Mendoza’s drug baron image becomes too embarrassing – even for the CIA – and the are ordered to take care of it. Permanently. Lowry has a plan. A good one. If everything goes smoothly Mendoza will be dead and Serdan will be blamed for the assassination. And Lowry will pick up a retirement nest egg of a few million dollars … There’s just one flaw. A big one. Beno Alvarado must play his part. But Beno has done enough and had enough … … combines CIA double dealing, drugs, bent politicians and poor, hard done to peasants to produce a potent and exciting tale written with considerably more flair than most of the genreMANCHESTER EVENING NEWS