Piracy had been taking its toll on both shipping and tourism in Miami of late. The fraggers were ruthless and slippery, all the harder to catch because there were so many different groups of various sizes. Sure, Atlantic Security was on the case, but it didn’t seem to be making much of a dent. That was hurting the local economy bad, the trickle-down effect slowing everybody’s biz to a crawl. While Shorty there smelled like money and trouble. Thumbs’ two favorite things, outside of beer and sex. Which were practically the same thing: money-trouble, beer-sex, one always got you the other. Or so it seemed.