If ever there was an odd coupleA suburban mom and a coal miners sonBonnie Klapper is an attractive funny off-beat but tenacious federal prosecutor who constantly thinks out of the box often to the chagrin of her superiors She is a full-time Assistant US Attorney and a full-time mom to two sons one of whom is a special needs child Now retired Special Agent Romedio quotRooneyquot Viola --- first of US Customs then of the Department of Homeland Security --- is a slightly built larger-than-life eccentric from West Virginia whose reputation was based on his obsessive-compulsive pursuit of fugitives They were brought together by happenstance while both assigned to the quotEl Dorado Task Forcequot operating out of the World Trade Center A raid on three wire remitters in Queens New York uncovered huge amounts of drug money being sent to three tiny villages in a Colombian valley that no one had ever heard ofNeither the Justice Department nor the Treasury Department seemed terribly concerned with where the money was going as long as this flow of drug cash was stoppedBonnie and Rooney wanted to know moreWorking together out of her tiny office in the implausible outpost of Hauppauge Long Island they set off on a year journey to dismantle --- systematically --- the Colombian cartel responsible for of all the cocaine coming into the United States Her superiors Justice and his superiors at what was then Immigration and Customs Enforcement were quick to write them both off as dreamers Management believed there were enough drug dealers in the greater New York area to keep everyone busy for a long time Taking down a barbarous gang of traffickers and murderers miles away was pure fantasyBut Bonnie wasnt so sureAnd Rooney didnt care what they thoughtVeteran author Jeffrey Robinson whose previous international bestsellers on international organized crime and dirty money include quotThe Laundrymenquot quotThe Mergerquot and quotThe Sinkquot tells this story of true grit guile determination fighting the system beating the system and overcoming overwhelming odds with the pace of a great thrillerThis is quotThe French Connectionquot for.
