A boat off the coast

Description:

Tucker Morgan, a Vietnam veteran and a casualty of life, wants to take his two-year-old son and find a ghost town where he can make his own rules. But his scam to make some quick money and run, runs into some ruthless and violent men.

subjects: Fiction,  Drug traffic,  Drug traffic in fiction,  Maine in fiction,  Large type books,  New York Times reviewed,  Maine, fiction,  Fiction, general

People: Lowell Perry (fictional character),  Brian Davis (fictional character),  Tucker Morgan (fictional character),  Phillip Sutton (fictional character),  Pete Talbot (fictional character)

Places: Maine,  Belfast (Me.),  Searsport (Me.),  Brooks (Me.),  Camden (Me.)

Times: 1970s