The Honey Trap carries readers to an exotic pearl-shaped island, eighteen miles off the southeast coast of India. Now called Sri Lanka, the isle was formerly known as Ceylon, and its history, culture, and people are crucial to this intriguing novel. Set in the 1960's, the story centers on Stevie Cartright, a twenty-six-year-old reporter who joins the US Foreign Service after she learns her fianc is having an affair with her best...