Murder & smuggling are just the beginning in the seventh novel based on the global smash hit CSI spin-off series. In a field outside the Everglades a hot air balloon comes to land the lone passenger in the basket dead an apparent suicide. Then a bullet-riddled yacht limps into the Port of Miami where the sole survivor a gravely wounded hijacker reveals that there are illegal drugs on board. Its just another day for the Miami Dade CSI team -- until the body count is added to by the death of a well-known local writer. Before long Horatio Caine & his team are caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue & murder that reaches all the way to Castros Cuba