Lieutenant Jason Kerro, Royal Papua New Guinea Police, thought the early morning report of an armed attack on the foreign translators' base at Samana was an ordinary robbery attempt by the "rascal gangs" that roamed the country's Highlands. No one in town had recognized these intruders, or knew where they had come from or had gone. Except that one spoke English with a foreign accent, and had cut the power to the radio station and town switchboard before being driven off by security guards.
Jason suspects a connection with the assault rifles and drugs that have been turning up for sale in nearby Mount Hagen. The word on the streets is that some of the police are taking payoffs from smugglers moving in from Asia, but no one is talking about it; those who did are no longer alive. Jason doesn't know which of his police colleagues he can trust.
The sponsors of the translators' base, concerned with the safety of the families there, send in a pair of investigators with past experience with Asian drug dealers. George and Vienna Daniels are, to all appearances, short term medical volunteers at Samana's clinic. Jason soon discovers their usefulness as under cover allies in areas beyond his own jurisdiction. The intruders have hidden their trail well, but George and Vienna supply Jason with the edge that opens the case.
Look for it at your local bookstore,or ask them to order it: "The Samana Incident" by Keith Dahlberg. iUmiverse Press, ISBN 978-1-4502-6311-5. Also available on amazon.com, or from the iUniverse on-line bookstore, In soft cover ($14.95) or e-book format ($9.99)
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