The Gold Coast

{ May 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 400 pages Published 1988 Orb eBook (2013) The Gold Coast is the second novel in Robinson's Three Californias trilogy. 2027: Southern California is a developer's dream gone mad, an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls. Jim McPherson, the affluent son of a defense contractor, is a young man lost in a world of fast cars, casual sex, and designer drugs. But his descent in to the shadowy underground of industrial terrorism brings him into a shattering confrontation with his family, his goals, and his ideals.