Foreword
The trick deck was being stacked against the Americans in their own backyard. And the game wouldn’t be played by Hoyle or anyone else’s fair-minded rules. The Russians, with help from the obsequious Cubans, had launched a daring, robust campaign against the U.S. Embassy in Haiti, the second salvo in a clandestine war to counter American influence in the Caribbean. It was all about disrupting diplomatic relations and making the U.S. suffer for its imperious ways and a decades’ long trade embargo of Cuba. Most importantly, it was a concerted effort by the conspirators to expand their geopolitical influence throughout the entire region. If they had their way, Uncle Sam would no longer speak softly while carrying a big stick with his neighbors to the south.
American diplomats had already been surreptitiously and viciously attacked with ultrasonic beams or microwaves in Havana causing many Foreign Service officers and their families to leave the country. Now it was the Americans in Haiti turn for retribution, but in a quite different manner. It wouldn’t be sound or microwaves this time around. Oh no, it would be through a fury of violent actions by a voodoo cult called The Family which loyally served its Cuban masters.
Once again, I was recalled to active duty to serve and protect our nation. Sure, I was a true red, white and blue patriot, right down to the core of my overdrawn checkbook.
Please join me as I travel the world on behalf of the Diplomatic Security Service and uphold truth, justice and the American way!
Very truly yours,
Richard M. Avery III
Special Agent (Retired)
Diplomatic Security Service
U.S. Department of State