join him and a new friend, Tony Holcombe in private practice. Duke immediately turns up in Maine with his bloodhound, Little Eva, and joins Hawkeye in persuading Spearchucker to become the local neurosurgeon. Duke and his family move into Crabapple Cove next to Hawkeye and Mary Pierce. Trapper John is lured to the area by the possibility of becoming the Don of Spruce Harbor in the Cardia Nostra and becomes romantically involved with Hawkeye's secretary, Lucinda Lively, whom he eventually marries. Along the way, the reader meets more of the local characters, including "Wrong Way" Napolitano, who sometimes uses the transatlantic jet planes he flies for a major airline to spot fish for his fisherman relatives in the Gulf of Maine; "Moose" Lord, a longtime friend of "Big Benjy" Pierce who contracts a rare and extremely nasty form of cancer that Hawkeye has to treat; "Goofus" MacDuff, the medical director of Spruce Harbor General, whose ability to summarize a case and reach the completely wrong conclusion and diagnosis is the stuff of legend to the Swampmen; "Doggy" Moore, the previously mentioned general practitioner whose adopted son Chip (short for Chipmunk) Moore was a high school and college buddy of Hawkeye's; "Half A Man" Timberlake, who is not overly bright but is sexually insatiable, and Wooden Leg's loyal henchman; the three local hookers, 'Bang-Bang" Betty, "Mattress" Mary, and "Made" Marion; and Hawkeye's Uncle Lewis "Lew the Jew" Pierce, who is a fanatic golfer and lives on an old fishing pier in The Solid Rust Cadillac. Setting Pierce's home, "Port Waldo", is (real-life) Waldoboro, Maine, and the FinestKind Clinic is just up U.S. Route 1 in Rockland. "Crabapple Cove" is actually Broad Cove, in Bremen just down the Medomak River from Waldoboro Village. Author Richard Hooker (Hornberger) owned an old farmhouse on Heath Point. The reader will note Wreck Island, Thief Island, and other Muscongus Bay landmarks in the book. It is possible that the Pierce family is modeled after the (real-life) Spear family, who had a number of different branches in the area, in the 1950s. M*A*S*H 1972 American novels American comedy novels Novels set during the Korean War Novels set in Maine Sequel novels William Morrow and Company books Works published under a pseudonym