Poison In Paradise
Description
The year is 1986 in the multi-cultural and multi-ethnic mosaic that is Hawaii. Poison in Paradise is about power politics, crime arrogance, cover-ups, the media, and the inner working of a legislature. It is set at a time when the environmental movement was just learning to challenge the growing appetite for development and profit.
Follow the inner thoughts and maneuvers of rival legislators, and how the world of the state capitol is interwoven with the corporate appetites of a declining agricultural industry, the state of the media and how it covered public affairs before the arrival of the Internet.
Main Characters
Ramsey Bingham - Chair of the Board of the Sandwich Isles Chemical Corp.
Carleton Brent - London based Insurance mogul
Eastland Bridges - a Hawaii State Senator
Mei-Ling Bridges - wife of Senator Eastland Bridges
Flora Garcia - Children affected by possible pollution
Stephani Harrison- Carleton Brent's personal assistant
Betsy Ito - Office Manager for Eastland Bridges
Barbara Lum - TV Reporter
Bobby Martin - State Senator
Randall Ogawa - State Senator, close friend of Helen Tokugawa
Byron Park - Honolulu detective
Michael Robinson - former staff for Bridges, State Representative
Steven Sinclair - private investigator
Helen Tokugawa - Former staff for Eastland Bridges, State Senator
Bill Wilcox - Plantation Forman
Thelma Winters - Native Hawaiian; Chair, Leeward Community Action Coalition
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Content
Main Characters .............................................................................................vi
AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE ..........................................................................vii
CHAPTER ONE .........................................................................................1
CHAPTER TWO .........................................................................................17
CHAPTER THREE .....................................................................................24
CHAPTER FOUR .......................................................................................35
CHAPTER FIVE .........................................................................................42
CHAPTER SIX ............................................................................................68
CHAPTER SEVEN .....................................................................................76
CHAPTER EIGHT .....................................................................................91
CHAPTER NINE ........................................................................................99
CHAPTER TEN ..........................................................................................107
CHAPTER ELEVEN ..................................................................................119
POSTSCRIPT ..............................................................................................135
