Aided by a brilliant Caribbean beauty, Jake Scarne quickly exposes a lottery scam in a troubled island paradise. Case closed and big payday? Not quite! Scarne has aroused the wrath of corrupt politicians, a murderous Colombian drug cartel—and a shadowy American financier. He is soon caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that costs the life of a friend. But as Scarne seeks revenge, the line between friend and foe blurs.