Erik Olson

An American college student disappears studying abroad in Lima, Peru in the 1980s while the country is in the throes of the Shining Path and MRTA communist insurgencies. Her wealthy father hires ex-Green Beret and struggling private eye Michael Dane to find her. The chances of success seem miniscule and the risks innumerable and high, but Dane badly needs the money, and Richard Eastman is offering it – plenty of it.

THE BLACK VULTURE is the story of Dane’s quest to find out what happened to Linda Eastman in a convulsed, alien land. His search puts him at odds with a pornographer in the San Fernando Valley, the CIA, hostile Peruvian state police, and armed and motivated communists, none of whom, it seems, care to see him succeed. Someone is following his every move almost from the very beginning, perhaps the same someone who keeps trying to kill him. What will it cost – lives lost, friends betrayed, a deal with the Devil – for Dane to uncover what happened?