Less than one hundred miles off the coast of Florida sits a tiny Caribbean island so innocuous that no one with grand nefarious plans would spare it a second glance. Or would they?
Key Isabella might be small, but it has become a hub for the drug trade into the United States. For the Black Beretsâthe worldâs fiercest mercenariesâthe issue of a billion-dollar heroin smuggling operation hits a sore spot they canât ignore. Arriving in the West Indies, the five-man team of American heroes is tasked with overthrowing Key Isabellaâs evil dictator without anyone finding out theyâre involved. To make matters more difficult, they soon bump into the additional problem of a police force just as violent and corrupt as the nationâs tyrannical leader.
John Preston was a pioneer in the early gay rights movement and publishing initiatives and the author or editor of more than twenty-five acclaimed books. Along with the Black Berets series, he wrote numerous entries in Gold Eagleâs Soldiers of Barrabas series under the pseudonym Jack Hild. As Preston McAdam, he wrote the three books in the Michael Sheriff: The Shield series.
Michael McDowell wrote a number of well-received horror novels, including The Amulet, The Elementals, and the Blackwater series, as well as historical fiction. With Dennis Schuetz, he cowrote four detective novels under the pseudonym Nathan Aldyne and was also active in screenwriting such movies as Beetlejuice, The Nightmare before Christmas, and Thinner. He provided episodes for a number of television horror anthologies, among them Tales from the Darkside.