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     Bimini, Bahamas      I love Bimini, Bahamas and couldn't resist describing street scenes of it in my spy series. Here's one scene where the crooked U.S. Senator Warren and his Chief-of-Staff Mark Serwin are about to meet a contact in Alice Town, Bimini:        " Warren and Serwin parked their golf cart on the narrow dirt and limestone Queen's Highway, then walked the same path Anthony Hopkins strolled down at the end of the movie 'Silence of the Lambs' after he called FBI agent Jodie Foster on the phone from Alice Town, North Bimini.      They walked past the dirt-floored End of the World Saloon where the late New York congressman Adam Clayton Powell drank during his exile to Bimini in 1967. Some locals still order the scotch and milk drink in honor of him, which the émigré sipped on often. Serwin wanted to go in and try a scotch and milk, but the senator reminded him they had a...

  Nassau and the Bahamian out island of Abaco hold painful memories for Corey Pearson, CIA station chief for the Caribbean Basin. Nassau was where he met his wife, Danielle. And it was during a mission on Abaco when Danielle was brutally murdered. Pearson finds himself back in the Bahamas to investigate the abduction and murder of a fellow agent. Surrounded by Nassau’s familiar sights and sounds, Pearson struggles not to let memories of Danielle overshadow his mission—a struggle that becomes ever more difficult as he uncovers evidence connecting his wife’s horrific death to a deep data mining project known as the Penumbra Database. As Pearson discovers, everyone wants the database—from an Islamic narcoterrorism group planning a major attack on US soil to players in an ongoing contest between the FBI and the CIA for control of domestic surveillance. As for the jihadists, their plan is rapidly approaching fruition. They have all the weaponry and religious zeal they...