In 1999, Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, charged that China plotted to take over the Panama Canal and use the area to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. In the U.S. Senate, Trent Lott, the then-Republican Senate Majority Leader, expressed concern that the Chinese could deny U.S. ships passage. Now, a CIA informant in Panama with possible information on the Chinese take-over has been killed and the agency has to again look at the potential Communist threat. It steps up its investigation by sending veteran CIA agent Jack Dallas to find out the truth. A former Navy diver, Dallas has to dive deep into the canal and the Hong Kong company that runs the canal ports. His investigation leads him to a prominent businessman in Shanghai, bankers in Monaco and Russian mobsters in Miami before finding out the stunning truth and racing to prevent a major catastrophe in the canal.
Joachim Bamrud is an award-winning journalist and Latin America expert who has appeared on Fox News' The O'Reilly factor and CNN and been interviewed by media such as Reuters, Bloomberg and the Financial Times.
He has covered Latin America for more than 28 years for various U.S., European and Latin American media, including Reuters, UPI, The Miami Herald and Global Finance. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Latin Business Chronicle and a former editor of Latin Trade magazine.
Bamrud was born in Spain, grew up in the United States and started his journalistic career in Norway. He has lived and worked as a journalist in Caracas, Venezuela; Panama City, Panama; Mexico City, Mexico and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He currently resides in Miami, USA.
Through his parents (from the US and Norway), he can also trace relatives back to Denmark, Italy, Lithuania, Spain and Sweden. Meanwhile, his son was born in Santo Domingo and is half-Dominican.
