SIEGE OF SILENCE by A.J. Quinnell - FIRST EDITION BOOK

A vital Central American nation has fallen to Cuban-backed
guerillas. The American ambassador is held prisoner. And the US President faces
the get him out ... or kill him. In as rat-infested room ambassador Peabody
faces a brilliant, ruthless young protege of Fidel Castro, Jorge Calderon, who
is determined to extract the truth behind a secret CIA operation against Cuba.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, the President is caught between CIA strategists
who want to eliminate Peabody before he can reveal the CIA's plans, and Colonel
Silas Slocum, the one man who believes he can rescue the ambassador in an
awesome and daring rescue...