About This Book
FICTION OR NON FICTION? Based on true events. When is right wrong? In the sensual love affair between Julia and Alex. They each have found their soul mates in each other. Julia, after years of being married to a womanizer and philanderer, and Alex, caught in a platonic marriage. Can Julia resist the temptation and allow herself to feel happiness? The Communist Cuban government is using her in a scheme to launder billions of dollars through her investment banking firm and take public through Wall Street a pseudo successful conglomerate in Miami that will add $10 Billion to their already stuffed Swiss Bank accounts. Their love affair begins in Paris in 1990, as Alex, a non-cover-operative for the CIA is covertly protecting Julia from the Republic of Panama's dictator Manuel Noriega's goons, after his arrest in Operation Just Cause by the CIA. The conflict thickens as Alex recruits Julia in 2000, to become the president of the newly formed Cuban Council in Exile whose objective is the peaceful overthrow of the Castro regime. Two generals of the Castro regime have different plans for Julia, Alex and all members of the Council, both in Cuba and the United States. They have been targeted for elimination as their arrogantly and cynically named Operation Due Diligence unfolds. Every player in this riveting suspense thriller has a double agenda. Trust no one. You'll ask: could this really happen? It helps to be from Miami. The University of Miami once housed the CIA as thousands of Cubans fought Castro from the University's South Campus. Suspense oozes up from the sidewalks in Miami. Odors of delicious garlic-laced food and pungent flowers hang in the air. Things happen here. They are called "Miami Moments." And they happen much like it does to the characters in Due Diligence experience. Alex, the main character, gets recruited at UM by CIA. Lots of students actually did. Owen Parr is a skillful observer of political world events and the wretched psyche of the Castro Bros. He understands how people with unfettered power, unchallenged by law, can visit tragedy and pain on those who disagree. Few people know that Castro, a world class criminal, personally ran the Direccion de Inteligencia, He ran it viciously. Owen Parr must know this, because Alex, the main character weaves in and out of the web the Castro's have created for their various venal and devastating strategies. Due Diligence is a suspense-filled movie in your mind. Parr rolls the film, controls the color and sound exquisitely; he teases you, he jolts you with action and takes you up and down the roller coaster. Cuban men LOVE their women and -- well-- it is pretty obvious that Parr is a Cuban man. And, of course Julia and Paris and Chicago and Miami Beach and Havana swirl around the stage set, painted and lighted by Parr. Does Alex's beloved Julia survive the action? How could she? Who or what is "Chico and Gang"? To find out--- do your own "Due Diligence.""
