It has been well over forty years since I read this novel. I did a re-read before tackling The Consummata, due out in October from Hard Case Crime.Morgan The Raider had been convicted of stealing forty million in new bills the Treasury was transporting. He'd been caught up in a sweep of a cheap hotel where authorities were after a drug dealer. Hidden in the room was a stash of money from the heist, serial numbers all matching.Morgan had escaped and, because someone ran a red light, hitting his car and him regaining consciousness in the hospital handcuffed to a bed, he was in custody again.They were offering him a deal to reduce his sentence. A man, a scientist with security knowledge vital to America, was a prisoner on a Caribbean island run by a dictator. He was demanding money for the scientist and the Russians were after him also.His job was threefold: ascertain if the man was still alive. If he was, get him out. If that wasn't possible, kill him.Morgan was working all the angles. he told them if they wanted it done, he kept the forty million. They weren't anxious to agree.They didn't know one thing though. Morgan hadn't stolen the money, despite his conviction. He was going to find it as well as doing the job.He had a minder as well, a beautiful agent that was to be his new bride as they played the casinos on the island. They even went so far as to marry them. She had her orders also.
