Dan Landes is "ex" everything: expatriate, ex-detective, and exhausted. He has returned to Panama after a year of recuperation in the United States, ready to resume a quiet life gathering the mind-altering ayahuasca plant deep in the mountains. But evil is coming to Panama - or rather, through Panama - as a sinister team of murderers seeks to smuggle the world's most lethal biological weapon into the United States through Central America. The investigation starts with a dead body in a hotel room - a dead body that returns from beyond the grave to force Dan to find the killers. From the creative mind of Robert Rahula comes this gripping story of biological weapons, drug-fueled detective work, and ghost corpses. Dan Landes, the worn-out detective from One Last Fling, Bathhouse Stories, All the Yage in Reno, and Uninvited Guest is back, trying to quit the very drug that he needs to use in order to solve this twisting tale of international terror.