Madison, CT: St. Clair Press, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel (his previous books were about science and space), set in the Bahamas in the near future. An ex-lunar scientist businessman who never made it to the moon has created his own 'moon colony' on earth on a tropical island, and when the crew of his supply ship is killed for allegedly running cocaine, and his daughter is kidnapped, he tries to rescue her. SIGNED on the front endpaper. A massive novel at 536 pages, this has dj blurbs from Arthur C. Clarke and Scott Carpenter among others. ISBN: 0-963235702.