White Monsoon: Morphine Base

White Monsoon is the code name used by Libyan terrorists around 1991 for a plot to flood the United States with strong, bargain-basement-priced heroin. Posing as members of the International Red Cross, they travel from Libya to India's legal Opium & Alkaloid Works and the largest opium vat in the world. A riveting drama of mystery and suspense, life and death, good and evil -- a frightening scenario too close to reality to leave the reader complacent, this technothriller packs a timely wallop when, in real life, Afghanistan produced well over 1,000 tons of illegal opium in 1991 surpassing Burma; and Columbia has countless new, fast growing poppy fields.