Panama

Written by a seasoned journalist and updated to include Noriega's trial, this account of U.S. involvement in Panama "reads like a spy thriller" (Publishers Weekly). Buckley shows that U.S. policymakers were fully aware of Noriega's drug-trafficking activities and his association with the Medelin cocaine cartel when they worked with him.

• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
• In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968-1990