A Weatherman for All Seasons:
The Life of Morton J. Rubin

The anti-American president of Venezuela has an undeclared war with the United States. He initiates a plan to flood the nations of the Caribbean with billions of dollars of counterfeit $100 bills to destroy their economies. He plans to then use his petro-dollars and bail them out and gain control of the entire Caribbean basin. The U.S. Government learns of the plan and gives the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) the mission of stopping it. ONI initiates Operation Venback to combat the plan with a small vessel and a crew of eight that is given the order to sink the delivery ship. The future influence of the United States in the Caribbean is at stake and depends on the success of their mission.
Savannah Magazine, November/December 2007 Regional Reads section, page 24.
"The Counterfeit War" by Harry Rubin
Former U.S. Army colonel Harry Rubin puts his faith in the Navy in this novel about a plan by the Venezuelan government to de-stabilize Caribbean nations by flooding them with counterfeit money, then taking control of the region. Rubin. a resident of coastal Georgia who was once the chief of staff of the 24th infantry division at Fort Stewart, gives the job of foiling the plan to Naval Intelligence and the eight person crew of a catamaran called the Summer Wind. Thomasmax Publishing $15.95
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