Against the Current

About the Book

It´s the autumn of 1990, the lull before Desert Storm. Air Force First Lieutenant Francisco Lefevre takes his parents XJ and Maria to lunch at the Ahwanee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, California. Franco´s wife has left him and he´s been passed over for promotion to Captain. The proximate cause of this disaster is an unauthorized investigation he conducted of a local support group for Salvadoran Communist guerrillas; an obsession for which he neglected his official duties and slept with his informant, a "Sandalista" named Sheila with a taste for kinky sex.

As fate would have it that same organization is hosting a fundraiser at the hotel. "Pablo," a commandante implicated in the 1985 Zona Rosa Massacre of US Embassy personnel, is the keynote speaker. "Pablo" turns up dead, and Franco is caught bending over the body.

To complicate matters Franco had encountered "Pablo" once before, while on a secret mission to recover the remains of Franco´s namesake uncle, whose B-26 had crashed in the Nicaraguan mountains on return from the Bay of Pigs. Only one person knows of this - possibly damning - encounter: Franco´s old friend Sandy, whose sympathies lie with the guerrillas. Together they endeavor to track down the actual murderer while dodging attempts on their own lives and wrestling with the tensions between their friendship and their politics. Can they solve the case before becoming victims - or enemies - themselves?

About the Author

Michael R. Little is a retired Air Force officer who works for Civil Service and, in his spare time, writes as a freelance journalist. His articles have appeared in such publications as The Navigator, Air Force ROTC Leader, Combat Crew and The Guard & Reserve. He is the author of A War of Information, a nonfiction book about US involvement in the war in El Salvador. Mr. Little lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife, two sons, and a four-foot iguana named “Chico.”