02910cam a2200361 i 4500 1742726781 TxAuBib 20250109120000.0 241108s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2024030416 9781400248605 HRD 29.99 1400248604 HRD 29.99 TxAuBib rda Harmon, Mark, 1951-, author. Ghosts of Panama [BOOK] : a strongman out of control, a murdered marine, and the special agents caught in the middle of an invasion / Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll, Jr.. [New York] : Harper Select, [2024] xv, 253 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections. Intimidation on the streets is a daily reality for U.S. personnel and their families. The nation is a powder keg. Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Special Agent Rick Yell has worked the job in Panama since 1986, and lives there with his wife Annya and infant child. Like most NIS agents, he’s a civilian with no military rank with a specialty in working criminal cases. The dynamic changes suddenly when Yell inadvertently develops an intelligence source with unparalleled access to the Noriega regime. Now the agent is thrust into a world of spy-versus-spy, of secret meetings and hidden documents. The powder keg is lit on December 16, 1989, when a young U.S. Marine is gunned down at a checkpoint in Panama City. Yell and his cadre of trusted agents deploy immediately to investigate the killing, and what they determine will decide the fate of two nations. When President Bush hears the details they uncover, he orders an invasion that puts Yell’s family, informants and fellow agents directly in harm’s way. Using a blend of research and interviews with the NIS agents who were directly involved, Ghosts of Panama reveals the untold, clandestine story of counterintelligence professionals placed in a pressure cooker assignment of historic proportions.". 20250109. Noriega, Manuel Antonio 1934-2017. Torrijos, Omar 1929-1981. Arias Madrid, Arnulfo 1901-1988. Drug traffic Panama. United States Foreign relations Panama. Panama Foreign relations United States. Panama History American Invasion, 1989 Causes. Panama Politics and government 1981- Carroll, Leon, Jr., author.