New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in the Bahamas, "land of turquoise seas and heavenly beaches, cocaine, quackery, and postcolonial racial inequity. Chris is a native, but he is white, filthy rich, and utterly depressed. His best friend Shark is black, poor, and just a little fed up with Chris's angst. Both men have developed worrisome drug habits.. . Then they meet Robin, an American artist seriously ill with cancer. While Chris struggles to come to terms with painful elements of his past, to kick his habit, and to love a woman he's doomed to lose, Shark manages to enrage a Colombian drug cartel, placing all three of them in grave danger." (Booklist) SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-671884263.