Buying the farm
Subtitle: a novel
By: Michael Knapp
Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC.; Telemachus Press, LLC
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781938135156
Description: In the nation's heartland quiet prevails as farm families in America's finest tradition, stoically face the tribulations of the life they have chosen and will never trade. Just as quietly an agricultural corporate giant launches a vicious campaign to steal their land, seducing a forest service director into using his environmental authority to accomplish its malicious agenda. Family farmers are unarmed while corporate agriculture arms itself to the teeth, journalists and environmental groups move to inflame public opinion and the government's unmatchable firepower readies itself. Amidst the raging power and passion, attorney Bell Marshall is all that stands in the way of the conspirators. It should be no contest. Marshall fights hard, believing that American courts are the great equalizer between powerful interests and small voices. He battles conscienceless corporate greed and governmental corruption to save not only the land of eighty-five family farmers but a treasured way of life. As he strives to get the farmers their day in court, his corporate/government adversary campaigns to poison the well of justice before the farmers arrive. It takes a monumental effort for Bell to prepare the case and a cat's agility to stay the battle. Even with that, neither side is prepared for an eleventh hour revelation that ignites a searing conclusion that alters the lives of people, affects the humane treatment of animals and preserves the land in America's heartland for every wise use.