A whirlwind novel of chase and daring about a down-at-the-heels newspaperman who gets caught in the crossfire of a South American revolution. A high government official falls ill with a terrible and dreaded disease. An American citizen vanishes without a trace from a lonely railroad station. A parachutist drops through the silent night into the shelter of a dense forest. Only the plotters know that these isolated happenings are all part of a master plan…a daring attempt to overthrow a cut-throat dictator who does not hesitate to maim or murder anyone who makes a try for freedom. For Michael Benasque terror began with the stroke of midnight. He was an American newspaperman bumming around Caracas, out of a job, out of money, out of luck. The revolutionaries with a fantastic scheme apprised him of the scheme and dangers, but Benasque found himself agreeing to become the central vital figure in a plot to overthrow a dictator – a plot that was daring and desperate, that could bring wealth or sudden death.