"Jack Delaney—ex-con, former hotel thief, former male model—is now unhappily working for his brother-in-law, a New Orleans mortician who orders the reluctant Delaney to pick up the corpse of a young woman from a Louisiana leper colony. What Delaney discovers, however, is that the young woman he's picking up is neither a leper nor dead: she's Nicaraguan beauty Amelita, on the run—with help from gorgeous ex-nun Lucy Nichols—from a lecherous, homicidal Contra colonel named Dagoberto Godoy. Soon, then, Delaney—bewitched by Lucy's comely idealism—is helping to hide Amelita from Godoy and a squad of creepy, CIA-connected henchmen. Furthermore, Delaney eagerly joins in when Lucy (who has witnessed Contra horrors) suggests that they steal the $2 million that Col. Godoy has been collecting from right-wing US industrialists—money destined to support Contra terrorism (or perhaps Godoy's Miami retirement). To help in this heist from Godoy's New Orleans hotel, Delaney assembles a motley, diverting crew: elderly bank-robber Cullen, just paroled and desperate for sex; ex-cop Roy, a Stone Age thug; ex-girlfriend Helene; and—the unlikeliest ally—Godoy's own resident hit man, a weirdly naive Nicaraguan Indian"--From Kirkus Reviews.