Metro Girl The first book in the Barnaby & Hooker

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Wild Bill is up to his gonads in trouble. Never the brightest spark he's hired himself out as a boat captain to some shady American investors who have him ferrying unknown objects -- and the occasional Florida politician -- in and out of Cuba. Everything's going well until an honest politician realizes the boat-trip will land him deep in Castro's pocket with Bill's bosses netting a lucrative Cuban real estate package as their reward for securing his vote. When the politician threatens to go public all hell breaks loose -- and Bill disappears. Dispatched to Florida to find her worthless baby brother Alexandra 'Barney' Barnaby the brains of the family isn't too happy about trading her well-paid-if-boring job in Baltimore for the bugs and heat and bad-hair-day humidity of South Beach. Doing the rounds of Wild Bill's broken-hearted bimbos she's thinking things can't get much worse than being unemployed and sunburned in Florida. Too bad for Barney -- she's wrong about the getting worse part.