DANCING WITH THIEVES — Clarissa McNair

Dancing with Thieves is a fast-paced caper set in the spring of 1988 as the era of Noriega is ending and the banks of Panama are closing. The Barracuda Brothers, sadistic drug lords in leisure suits, have too much money. Their right hand man, Take-A-Chance, is desperate to move cash from country to country, from bank to bank--sometimes in Gucci suitcases. A midget from Oklahoma, a Roman prince and a beautiful Alabama tomboy all become entangled in the dirty business of money laundering. There comes one star-crossed moment as the nets close across the time zones from casino to palazzo, from Nevada desert to Lake Geneva, when each character must risk everything.