It's not wise to tempt fate. It's a hard thing to avoid if you've got the world working against you. Alex McCleod, formerly with the CIA, now runs a very sophisticated ''information & intelligence'' service out of Washington. He is hired by an abrasive Texan millionaire, Elliot Streicher, to find the man's missing daughter, last seen with some notorious Mexican cartel people on a ship out in California. Yet from the start, despite the generous payment...