Buy this book on-line MacDONALD**, JOHN D: : BARRIER ISLAND: A NOVELLONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1987. ISBN 034039952X.
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includes title+half-title pages.
It was an uninhabited undeveloped island you couldn't even see on a clear day from the Mississippi coastline,squatting low in the hurricane path out in the bay.But Tucker Loomis had bought plots of land all
over it and had drawn elegant plans for millionaire developments he was going to build.Or was he? Was it just a great land scam, the sort of thing you might expect from a man like clever old Tuck Loomis? When the Park Service step in to slap a preservation order on the island for a hitherto unregarding USA,intentions become very much the issue round the West Bay business community,and not only those of the buccaneering speculator,Loomis.
The Bernard Island scandal provokes a crisis of conscience in the real estate partnership handling the business,and as the favours asked begin to exceed favours given,first one dead body turns up and then another.
John D.MacDonald understands all too clearly the springs of self-interest which
keep the wheels of small town business turning,the cogs within cogs,the golf- course deals,and the pay-offs which sometimes come that bit too dear and too dangerous.The result is a masterly novel about decency and greed,power and violence.
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