Living on Bar Time

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While taking over as head of the family business is never easy, for ninth-generation bar owner HR MacCrae, it’s an outright moral dilemma. Between the drunks, the internecine squabbles, and the weight of over 300 years of family tradition, he’s started looking at single, one-way flights to the Caribbean. And when a stranger appears, bearing further evidence of the clan’s shady dealings, it’s all HR can do to hold it all together. Because, as he finds out through the memoir of a black sheep aunt, the MacCraes have not just tended bar all those years. From time to time, they’ve also traveled to the worst, most devastated cities on earth, set up crude bars, made rafts of money, and then snuck out like rats. In other words, they’re profiteers. With booze. Faced with the clan’s darkest secrets, HR must confront both the past and the present if he and the family are to survive. Have the MacCraes been pursuing the American Dream or are they simply greedy parasites? In the end, it will be HR’s call, and his choice as to where the family is headed.

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