A Death in Panama confronts the frightening world of early 20th century Panama when the canal was being built. In 1976, the Americans are planning to return the canal to Panama. Many are terrified that the horrific secrets of that earlier time will be exposed. Two men, Octavius Bryant and Rupert Barnes, survivors of that lawless period, are particularly concerned and find themselves drawn into a conflict that had begun seventy years earlier. The novel depicts the transformations in both these men from ambitious youths to vengeful old men. While Barnes is determined to eliminate Bryant, Bryant has a more ambitious goal: the destruction of the Canal itself.
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