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An fast paced espionage thriller about a determined high-tech executive seeking personal revenge on the cocaine smuggling pirates that raped & killed his wife & daughter while they vacationed in the Caribbean.

Wendell ("Cat") Catledge, a self-made electronics millionaire, is yachting off the South American coast with his family when a bloody act of piracy snatches away his "heart-stoppingly beautiful" teenage daughter Jinx and wife Katie. They are presumed dead, but weeks later Cat gets a brief phone call and recognizes Jinx's voice. His quest for his daughter, who is now a zombie enslaved by "the Anaconda," a Colombian drug baron, involves Cat with assorted CIA and narc types and with Meg Greville, a freelance TV journalist who may be KGB.

A bit too predictable for me!!!

While on a two year excursion on the family yacht, Cat and his family pull into a South American port for engine repair, English speaking Denny helps them get the part they need and request help to get him back home. In the quiet of the early morning a boat approaches and Cat is shot and left for dead and upon awakening finds his wife and daughter murdered. After his recovery late one night he receives a phone call with only one word spoken, "Daddy", Stuart Woods always gives a good story and this one is no exception.

They should have killed Catledge. But they were too cruel.
They let him live while they raped his wife and daughter.
Le him live while they sent his yacht and his family to the bottom of the Caribbean.
Let him live knowing he could never find the killers in the drug boomtowns and pirate ports of Colombia.
Then, late one night back in the States the phone rang. And one word gave Catledge something to live for.
One word crackling through the night before the connection was lost.
One word that launched a one-man war against a ruthless outlaw.