Abstract:
March 1989. Oil from the Exxon Valdez escapes into the environment, crippling the area’s inhabitants and devastating their way of life.

Was there a conspiracy involving the grounding of the Exxon Valdez?

Alicia, the villainous heroine of the novel, has trouble keeping men around for any length of time. Her first husband mysteriously contracts an amoeba that attacks his brain, resulting in an agonizing death. Fortunately, his life insurance policy handsomely provides for her needs, enabling her to build a fish processing empire that eventually earns her the label, “The Halibut Lady.”