The New York Times bestselling author of Cane and Abe and Black Horizon blends Goodfellas
and Elmore Leonard in this wild, suspenseful caper inspired by actual
events, in which a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest
airport heists in history with deadly consequences.
Every week, a hundred million
dollars in cash arrives at Miami International Airport, shipped by
German banks to the Federal Reserve. A select group of trusted workers
moves the bags through Customs and loads them into armored trucks.
Ruban Betancourt has always
played by the rules. But the bank taking his house and his restaurant
business going bust has driven him over the edge. He and his wife
deserve more than life has handed them, and he’s come up with a ballsy
scheme to get it. With the help of an airport insider, he, his coke-head
brother-in-law, Jeffrey, and two ex-cons surprise the guards loading
the armored trucks and speed off with $7.4 million in the bed of a
pickup truck.
Investigating the heist, FBI
agent Andie Henning, newly transferred to Miami from Seattle, knows the
best way to catch the thieves is to follow the money. Jeffrey’s drug
addiction is as conspicuous as the Rolex watches he buys for dancers at
the Gold Rush strip club. One of the ex-cons, Pinky Perez, makes no
secret of his plan to own a swinger’s club—which will allow him carte
blanche with his patrons’ wives. Levelheaded Ruban is desperately trying
to lay low and hold things together.
But Agent Henning isn’t the only
one on their trail, and in the mob-meets-Miami fashion, these accidental
thieves suddenly find themselves way in over their heads . . . and
sinking fast.