The Year of the Gator

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The Florida tradition

In this Florida novel, a corrupt newspaper publisher teams up with a greedy business organization to quash an environmental movement by casting business leaders as champions of poor African Americans, provider of employment for the unemployed. The newspaper casts the environmentalists as the enemies of the poor.

Greed, racism, corruption

Enter Adrian Wright, a Yankee who wants to make quick money in a lakefront restaurant that has gone under many times. Because he employs an African American, a business organization lauds him as an example of the good deeds.

At the same time, an environmental activist named Dr. Parker Greenberg convinces him to oppose the biggest development project in the county, a giant sports complex that is a joint venture between the University of Florida and the business organization.

The legal trap

As the restaurant business founders, Adrian resorts to some modest drug deals. When a deal goes bad, tragedy strikes and he is arrested and scheduled for trial. Allyson Bell, his manager, a naive country girl, and  a friendly deputy named MacKay tell minor lies for him at trial. The ever active Dr. Greenberg uncovers documents showing that the prosecution is the result of political pressures.

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