Pearl Lagoon - Softcover

The Caribbean coast of Nicaragua in 1926 hosts so many citizens of the United States that a Bluefields newspaper is named The American, and Marines land regularly to protect lives and property. U.S. timber companies, fruit plantations, and gold mining operations attract Americans as both managers and laborers.

When a stunning local woman named Dorette Fox entangles herself with two expatriate Americans, the desultory love triangle combined with an escalating civil war leads to murder. Cordell Fletcher, a young consular officer sent north from Bluefields to investigate the death, finds that the shooting is not over yet.