"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers." -Herman Melville, Moby Dick The first book in the Karl Standt crime novel series, which includes Gone On Kauai and Compulsion. Barbarous Coasts is a tale of stratospheric thievery and corruption, set against a man's struggle for a clean conscience and the truth. It takes place in Manhattan's Midtown...