first edition Hardcover
(c.1983) · Bognor Regis (U.K.)
by Stuart, Webb C.
Bognor Regis (U.K.): New Horizon. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1983). First Edition. Hardcover. 0861167325 . [faint smudging to fore-edge, very slight bump to bottom rear corner; jacket shows a bit of wear and minor wrinkling along top edge]. A novel of the international oil business. "Wealthy clients induce Vic Pace, an unconventional oil finder, to survey the oil deficient Republic of South Africa. Pace sees megabuck Trilateralist bankers are poised to rape to country for its mineral treasures. He must find oil or doom blacks and whites to suffer the green of ruthless salvagers." According to his jacket-blurb bio, the author was "the sole, world-wide licensee of a geomicrobiological hydrocarbon process, patented and owned by a major multi-national energy corporation to directly locate oil deposits." (Does tha make him "an unconventional oil finder," like his protagonist? I suspect it does.) . (Inventory #: 22820)