Author: David Alan HallPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595124968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
General Motors. Chevron. OPEC. Wall Street. Big names. Big business. A bulwark of opposition standing in the way of Casey Raymond, a wealthy entrepreneur risking his life to market gasless, hydrogen-powered cars. {line space} Drugs. Violence. Homelessness. Race hatred. Powerful prejudices. Powerful social forces imprisoning Samuel Towers, a black teenager from inner city Los Angeles who skirts the law to escape his past, to finance his dream of filmmaking by working for a nameless company who pays cash for killing, for the ultimate assassination of a white man who dares to challenge the oil-based economy of our world. {line space} Rarely does an action-adventure novel transcend the genre and offer a new vision for living. Spanning twenty years and three presidential administrations, The Paradise Vendor is a panoramic epic examining the costs of empowerment, the price of intimacy, and the simple affirmation of the value of oneself