Soon after arriving in Manila in the early 1990s, Clay Sadler, the regional security officer at the U.S. embassy, is thrust into a chaotic world of uncertainty and deception. In a city where gunfire and explosions are commonplace, an early-morning...

From the time they met as kids in a sleepy neighborhood in Boulder, Lance Carpenter and Dee Evans had been best friends. Even as their interests and activities began to diverge in high school-Lance, the popular star athlete and Dee, the introspect...