Black Boat Dancing

The new cold war is heating up - pump primed by oil and the race to control the pipelines. Cyber warriors mine the dark side of international finance to destabilize the enemy. Their money trail stretches from Macau and New York to Rio de Janeiro, Cyprus, Beirut and Odessa, and the finance lines of governments and gangsters criss cross through Ukraine and Crimea. When Jorginho the Black Hat hacker goes AWOL in Portugal with the secrets of America's role in the Arab Spring rebellions, Maknazpy is enlisted to bring him back - dead or alive. Maknazpy tracks the runaway through the narrow streets of old Lisbon until he is betrayed and the hunter becomes the hunted. Juggling a hot money scam and cold war treachery, Maknazpy keeps one step ahead of his own US handlers, Chinese Military Intelligence, the Russian Mafia and a Brazilian street gang. But this time he is weak. Subjected to scrambled mind games and capricious illusions, Maknazpy freefalls into a crisis of identity that threatens to choke his will to go on - unless he can scrape enough faith to scourge deep into his dark soul for that rugged core of self belief and self knowledge that has lain dormant for so long. Then he might remember what it means to believe, to hope, even to trust. Maknazpy is starting all over again.