John D MacDonald - Barrier Island Hardcover First 1st Edition Book

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This listing is for John D. MacDonald Barrier Island Hardcover First 1st Edition. 

Hardcover: 229 pages

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (May 12, 1986)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0394554272

ISBN-13: 978-0394554273

Dust Jacket has some rips/tears, previous owner name written inside cover page; otherwise in overall very good condition

MacDonald's storytelling gifts are admirably displayed in his new novel, a mesmerizing narrative encapsulating questions on viable economics and snail-slow programs to protect natural resources. In West Bay, Mississippi, Tuck Loomis fraudulently acquires Barrier Island, planning to turn the ecologically important land and waters into a posh recreation area. Loomis is accepted by the good ol' boys, wheeler-dealers who prosper from local developments, but not by real-estate agent Wade Rowley. Suspicious of Loomis, Rowley breaks up with his gullible partner, Bern Gibbs, when they quarrel over the wily crook's plan to use their business as a front for his operation. Rowley learns that Loomis has bribed a representative of the U.S. Prosecutor's office to influence a hearing on Barrier Island. Acting too late, the federal government intends to acquire the island as a national park, which means paying a fortune to Loomis because of his fake title to the property. Lighting a long fuse, the perpetrator sets off a figurative bomb that destroys himself along with others to whom morality is merely a word. 150,000 first printing. 

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