From the conspiracy world - where pigs can fly, written in the early 1990s, this book may be a progenitor of the species Conspiracy book aficionados will applaud the reappearance of Trail of the Octopus. If not perhaps the Mother of the genre, it is certainly a classic, with all of the established elements: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Cypress, DEA, CIA, DIA, Justice Dept., drugs trafficking, Contras, Pan Am, Lockerbie, Bin Ladin, strange deaths, finger-pointing,...