Plot Summary:Gunny delivers Webb to a small rural hospital, and Harm and Mac return to Ciudad del Este (after Harm's "hard landing" in a forest). Gunny and Webb rejoin Harm and Mac in the city, then they meet again with Hardy, the local CIA man. Sadik, the Islamic drugs-and-arms dealer, kills Hardy's secretary, who has worked as a double agent for Sadik also. While Gunny babysits with Webb, Harm and Mac pursue Sadik, and they even stop a train, but they fail to catch him. Harm and Mac continue to examine and discuss their relationship; Mac predicts that things will never work out between them -- because, she says, each of them wants to be on top, both physically and emotionally. Then they fly back to Washington.
The cases of Harmon Rabb, former Navy fighter pilot, and his fellow lawyers of the US Navy's Judge Advocate General's office.