Cast Down the Waters : A Bosnia in Flames

Fast moving tale of love and love lost, and of war--but not conventional warfare. This is the story of two American secret agents, a man and a woman, dispatched behind enemy lines deep into those brooding black mountains of a Bosnia plunged into war, where superstitions and old hatreds abound, where deception and betrayal become the order of the day, and one's survival hinges on boldness and cunning-often sheer nerve alone.

Major Cil, a seasoned military operative with an iron will, a distrustful heart, a flare for intrigue and adventure, and a penchant for biting off more than he can chew, struggles to overcome his tainted past and prove himself anew.

Michelle D'Orleans, Cil's plucky if scheming co-operative, agile and resilient as she is headstrong, battles to overcome her youth and combat inexperience on nerve and skill alone, and to take her place in a male arena bent upon casting her out...and to win Cil's love and the respect of her uncle and surrogate father, the harsh and demanding former Yugoslav National Army colonel.

The mission is staged from the lofty heights of Roman castle ruins set high above a key enemy-held hydroelectric dam and the deceptively placid-looking waters of the lake it holds back.

But most of all, this is a human story, the tale of a man and woman as ill-suited and ill-matched as nature ever intended, together pitted against an implacable foe. And when the crisis comes, they find themselves thrown back upon their own private reserves, their resilience, and the very strength of their fiber, where pride and despair rise and fall like the folds of the land...and the tumultuous history of this troubled land.