Welcome to Miami Dade

When Sam Thompson, an idealistic investigative reporter, is asked by his part time girlfriend to help investigate the disappearance of a young woman in Miami, he did not anticipate uncovering an international web of ruthless human trafficking that would make him doubt his morality and place in jeopardy the lives of his friends.  South Florida has not been kind to Sam Thompson but he finds himself drawn to anything Irene asks of him. Dodging surveillance, intimidation and...
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When Sam Thompson, an idealistic investigative reporter, is asked by his part time girlfriend to help investigate the disappearance of a young woman in Miami, he did not anticipate uncovering an international web of ruthless human trafficking that would make him doubt his morality and place in jeopardy the lives of his friends.  South Florida has not been kind to Sam Thompson but he finds himself drawn to anything Irene asks of him. Dodging surveillance, intimidation and assassination attempts, they try to find the whereabouts of Anais, a young woman from Central America who vanishes after befriending Irene in a local nail salon. Irene blames herself for poking into the girl's mysterious world, suspecting her well intentioned questions have put the girl in harm's way. The couple is pulled into a world of lust, skin and perverse appetites behind the shadows of which deeper and darker elements lurk dangerously. Following the lead of an old source, a smuggler Sam's met on a previous assignment, they travel to Nicaragua with the smuggler's niece and Carlos, Sam's cynical best friend and discover an organization that operates vicious and efficiently. Alarmed by what they uncover they return to Miami to try to dismantle the trafficking operation by whatever means necessary even if that means compromising principles by which they have led their lives until then.A novel that reveals the hidden microcosms in present day South Florida, Welcome to Miami-Dade will appeal to those who wonder what shadows might lay behind the façade of glamour, multi-culturalism and sun drenched beaches.