Dangerous by Nature (A Tommy Hambledon Mystery)

It's the same insouciant Hambledon, but far from his usual European haunts. Plunked down in a Central American republic, Tommy finds himself trapped between hot Latin temperaments and cold "hostile powers" waiting for his American opposite number to show--and waiting, and waiting. But to keep ennui at arm's length there are a sherry-swilling parrot; a lethal local lottery; and those hostile powers to be stymied, with or without the help of the missing American. All to be accomplished in the middle of a wild, ravine-filled terrain--dangerous by nature.