Dangerous by Nature

It's the same insoucieant Hambledon, but far from his usual European haunts. Plunked down in a Central American republic, Tommy finds himself trapped between hot Latin temperaments and cold "hostile powers," waiting for his American opposite number to show -- and waiting, and waiting.

But to keep ennui at arm's length there are a sherry-swilling parrot; a lethal local lottery; and those hostile powers to be stymied, with or without the help of the missing American.

All to be accomplished in the middle of a wild, ravine-filled terrain -- dangerous by nature.