Where Is Joe Merchant? A Novel Tale.

BUFFETT, Jimmy.

Item Number: 144219

New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1992.

First edition of Jimmy Buffett’s first novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Jimmy Buffett on the pre-half-title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michael Koelsch based on a painting by Trevor Kane.

Where is Joe Merchant? That's what his sister, Trevor Kane, the hemorrhoid-ointment heiress, wants to know. For Desdemona, Merchant is the missing link in her ongoing communications with space aliens. Tabloid journalist Rudy Breno only cares that Merchant gets bigger headlines than Elvis. And for renegade seaplane pilot Frank Bama, the mystery of the presumed-dead-but-often-sighted rock star is turning his life upside down. In his debut novel, Jimmy Buffett cooks up an irresistible gumbo of dreamers, wackos, pirates, and sharks, as he leads Trevor and Frank on a wild chase through the Caribbean Islands to a place where anything can happen . . . and everything does.