The Scorpion's Dance

Forty years after President Nixon declared a "War on Drugs", the worldwide demand for illicit drugs has not lessened, the profits of the international drug cartels have increased and the resulting corruption has created Narco-governments in many countries. This "War" has accounted for billions of dollars spent on benign enforcement efforts, put millions of simple drug users in US prisons, neglected the root causes of illegal drug use, ignored legalization measures and during a six-year period, the "Mexican Drug War" left over 120,000 persons maimed, missing or murdered. When Lieutenant Christopher Garcia, the Coast Guard's Chief of Intelligence in San Juan, Puerto Rico, initiates an aggressive patrol program, the drug seizure rate soars, but not everyone is pleased; Garcia and his team have unknowingly entered the exclusive territory of a rogue group of US Customs agents and drug-traffickers who decide that the Coast Guard must be stopped...no matter the method, the cost or the consequences.

Author: Ligia Romero,David Hume
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 12/23/2013
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781492914594

About the Author
David Hume was born in Boston and spent his early years in Eagle Pass, Texas. He graduated from the Saint James School, Saint James, Maryland, and received his BA (Social Science) and JD from the University of Baltimore. He also studied as a Research Fellow at the University of Delaware's College of Marine Studies, specializing in legal-environmental issues. He is a life member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and the United States Naval Institute. Hume served as Chief of Police, Little Creek, Delaware, and as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Delaware, assigned to the Department of Natural Resources. He also served in the US Coast Guard, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. Some of his assignments included Assistant Legal Officer, Intelligence Officer (Miami Seventh Coast Guard District Headquarters) and Chief of Intelligence and Law Enforcement Division (Greater Antilles Section). While serving in the capacity of Intelligence Officer, Hume was ordered to Colombia in 1984 after the assassination of Colombia's Attorney General, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. He was assigned to the Colombian Navy's Atlantic Headquarters in Cartagena as the Liaison and Intelligence Officer for the first multi-national maritime drug campaign, known by its military code name; "Operation Wagon Wheel". From 1984-1988, Hume served in various parts of South and Central America in his capacity as Intelligence Officer. In Colombia, Hume conducted anti-drug operations with the Colombian Navy, Colombian Marine Corps and the"Anti-Narcotics Group" of the Colombian National Police. His work in Colombia was characterized by the Coast Guard in his second award of the Coast Guard Commendation Medal as, "crucial to the international community's success against narcoterrorism". David Hume presently serves as a security consultant, specializing in physical, electronic and maritime security solutions for heavy industry, maritime transportation and energy companies doing business in Central and South America. His security experience includes the preparation and completion of security projects in 32 countries in North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East.

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