The Argonaut Club

Costa Rica is known as an environmental paradise for its lush faun and floral, Lake Arenal, monkeys, tropical birds, and for its spectacular beaches and world-class sport fishing but what it is less known for its legalized prostitution, drug smuggling, money laundering and political corruption. Lane Taylor is not only about to learn about the other side of Costa Rica first-hand but he is to become an active participant. The lure of fabulous wealth, sex and cocaine draw Lane into a tangled web of deceit, extortion, sexual fantasy and even murder. This factual based novel exposes the real Costa Rica of the 1990's and early 2000's with its underworld connection to Colombia, Panama and Nicaragua. Even today, in 2008, as this book published, there is no reason to believe that this seedy world does not continue in light of the ever booming Sex Tourism Trade flourishing and the revelation that Costa Rica has been providing safe harbor for members of the FARC, a para-military Marxist organization that has been in a 20-year civil war with the Democratic government of Colombia and is now in control of Colombia's cocaine and heroin production. It is at great personal risk that Steuer Gray even dares to publish this novel.