Joe LaBrava is a photographer documenting the street life of Miami. But before he was a photographer, he was a Secret Service agent. And before that he was a twelve-year-old boy, crazy in love with movie star Jean Shaw. When his pal Maurice Zola asks for his help in sorting out a problem for a friend, and that fExtortion and corruption in seedy South Florida, by the master of American crimeJoe LaBrava has an eye for the perfect shotA former Secret Service agent, he’s now a photographer documenting Miami’s street life. What’s more, he’s good: really good, according to his pal Maurice. He just needs to catch a break.
When Maurice asks for his help sorting a problem for a friend, and that friend turns out to be Jean Shaw, the retired movie star Joe’s been crazy in love with ever since he was a boy, it seems too good to be true – even when the problem in question is blackmail.riend turns out to be the now-retired Jean Shaw, LaBrava's all in - even when the problem in question is blackmail.