A powerful and brilliantly cratted novel, "Bodily Harm" is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist running from her life, who takes an assignment to a tiny Caribbean island and is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle drugs or hustle for the CIA?) offers her a no-hooks, no strings affair that promises to distract her from the rising tension of the local elections she finds herself caught up in a lethal web of corruption...