
Ghosts of Panama
A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
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Mark Harmon
The next-true life NCIS story from New York Times bestselling authors Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr.
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Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections. Intimidation on the streets is a daily reality for U.S. personnel and their families. The nation is a powder keg.
Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Special Agent Rick Yell has worked the job in Panama since 1986, and lives there with his wife Annya and infant child. Like most NIS agents, he’s a civilian with no military rank with a specialty in working criminal cases. The dynamic changes suddenly when Yell inadvertently develops an intelligence source with unparalleled access to the Noriega regime. Now the agent is thrust into a world of spy-versus-spy, of secret meetings and hidden documents.
Yell’s source – known as “The Old Man” – warns when Cuban military personnel arrive and identifies anti-American officers within the Panamanian Defense Forces, provides information about an imprisoned CIA asset and helps track Noriega’s movements, agitating for the dictator’s kidnapping. The reports created by Yell and his NIS colleagues shape the decisions made in Washington D.C., CIA headquarters in Langley and the innermost sanctums of Pentagon.
The powder keg is lit on December 16, 1989, when a young U.S. Marine is gunned down at a checkpoint in Panama City. Yell and his cadre of trusted agents deploy immediately to investigate the killing, and what they determine will decide the fate of two nations. When President Bush hears the details they uncover, he orders an invasion that puts Yell’s family, informants and fellow agents directly in harm’s way.
Using a blend of research and interviews with the NIS agents who were directly involved, Ghosts of Panama reveals the untold, clandestine story of counterintelligence professionals placed in a pressure cooker assignment of historic proportions.
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Great detail to what went down in Panama
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Flowing narrative.
Limited scope.
Interesting topic.
Builds tension.
I would highlt recommend this book.
Inside look at a historical crisis
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Good story
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Truth
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By Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll
I leaned a lot about the men and women who lived the hard times in Panama during Noriega’s escapades and the invasion. A lot of sacrifices were made, lives were ended or changed, and “cops” found themselves wrapped up in something far larger than they were accustomed to dealing with.
The book was interesting and educational.
Educational
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Great book
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Great Story that many Americans have forgotten
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Superb story and enthralling narration keeps you spellbound to the end.
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Reading this historical account of the US military movement to remove Manuel Noriega from office and power.
The odd thing was, to me, was he was placed in power by the US government.
Noriega was a cruel man and took pleasure from torturing people who were arrested.
The book was written by interviews of people who were living in the Canal Zone or on base at one of many Forts and Naval Stations.
Hearing from the people who witnessed the events is eye opening to see the violence that was occurring around them.
The Panamanian soldiers were better trained and armed than first thought. And because this the fighting was brutal.
I had visited many of the places that were mentioned in the story and that made the story more compelling.
The the day by day movements and personal stories.
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