Manhattan Private Investigator Barney Moon can hack, charm or con his way into or out of damned-near anything. Barney is driven—to solve cases, nail bad guys, and to anyplace not reachable via the NY Subway.
Barney never learned to drive. And, like most born/bred New Yorkers, he regards pretty much anywhere else as “Out-of-Town.†But there is one place for which he has a particular, lifelong aversion: Los Angeles, California (which he thinks of as an Alien Planet). And—guess where he finds himself stranded?
In Cross Purposes, a case takes the reluctant Barney to Los Angeles to obtain a single fingerprint. Things quickly get complicated when his driver has to return to NY. Next morning, Barney enlists gorgeous 18-year-old Southern California delinquent Melodie Seaver as his driver, for—at most—one day. Except that things rapidly escalate for this comically ill-matched pair, into murders, conspiracies, and mortal danger.
The Good News for Barney: Melodie’s driving skills are awesome. Together, they must deal with a near-endless trail of goniffs, betrayed-and-betraying partners, stolen and re-stolen CIA code, religious nutcases, iffy Congressmen, Mercenaries, Russian Muscle, near-terminal greed-and-thievery, wannabe stars and starlets, and a pair of only-in-LA homicide cops. And–the love of Barney’s life (though he’s the last to admit it), now a Tinseltown Winner—re-enters his. Through it all, our off-the-wall team narrowly survives, solves the near-cosmically complicated mess they’ve stumbled into—and the relieved, fed up with LaLa Land Barney Moon can finally head back to Civilization—aka New York.
Or, can he…?
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