Central America has never known stability and even the end of the Cold War has not brought peace. In fact, things have got even worse. Cuba is freefalling into crisis and in the jungle-clad hills of Guatemala a bungled operation by the CIA is about to ignite a counter insurgency war.Political chicanery, institutional incompetence and the savagery of the jungle is about to put one Englishman's life at risk and American policy in the whole region on the edge.