Summary

Our Man in Panama has been acclaimed as the definitive account of Manuel Noriega's rise to power and America's part in it. It includes information on the American inva­sion of Panama and Noriega's trial, and a thorough account of the general's many intrigues. The author delineates Noriega's intricate web of relationships - with Fidel Castro, CIA director-William Casey, and Oliver North, among others. He takes us inside the bizarre, byzantine world of Panamanian power politics, with its drug kings, arms dealers, spies, and hapless diplomats. Our Man in Panama - selected as a notable book of 1990 by The New York Times - is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the strange and tangled history of America and Panama as well as the case against Manuel Noriega.