Monimbo is the 1983 follow-up novel to the 1980 Arnaud De Borchgrave-Robert Moss spy thriller The Spike.
The Miami Police Department loses control of the situation in Miami, and Cuban and Nicaraguan communists sabotage the electrical grid and blow up bridges to disable and disrupt the United States.
The book incorporates real-world elements such as the Mariel Boat Lift into its conspiracy theory.
[1] In their review, New York Magazine found it "swifter and more intelligent than Robert Ludlum's" work, though the publication accused it of wallowing in blood.
[3] The London Review of Books found the dialog poor and criticized the way real people were awkwardly shoehorned into the plot.