Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781733833127
- ISBN-10: 1733833129
- Publisher: Hawaii Insight Books
- Publish Date: May 2020
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.34 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.49 pounds
- Page Count: 146
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