Mesmerizing!
This Best Book delivers high suspense from start to finish.
The detailed, mesmerizing quality of the descriptions add to the gradually evolving character of Everett Townsend. As he becomes horrified by the increasing mystery surrounding the possibility of a slave trade of freed African American men from Florida to Cuba, he confronts many obstacles, including defying both Navy and Federal superiors.
Meeting with Levi Jacobs as he searches for his stolen sons strengthens his purpose
and his determination for real solutions despite his Cuban family connections to
slave plantations. Torn between trying to convert the last living member of his family,
he makes an awkward decision to include his Free Cuba fiancé Emma in meetings with his slave holding Grandmother.
His eventual reunion with his cartographer friend, Quinones, both strengthens and opens the plot as they move against and flee from ex-Confederates and Cuba's Spanish police force.
Each change of scene is vividly shown, as well as Everett's on-ship details,
from jolly boat to raking transom to Goleta...and more.
(For future editions, it would be good to shorten the back cover descriptions which reveal too much of the story.)
The detailed, mesmerizing quality of the descriptions add to the gradually evolving character of Everett Townsend. As he becomes horrified by the increasing mystery surrounding the possibility of a slave trade of freed African American men from Florida to Cuba, he confronts many obstacles, including defying both Navy and Federal superiors.
Meeting with Levi Jacobs as he searches for his stolen sons strengthens his purpose
and his determination for real solutions despite his Cuban family connections to
slave plantations. Torn between trying to convert the last living member of his family,
he makes an awkward decision to include his Free Cuba fiancé Emma in meetings with his slave holding Grandmother.
His eventual reunion with his cartographer friend, Quinones, both strengthens and opens the plot as they move against and flee from ex-Confederates and Cuba's Spanish police force.
Each change of scene is vividly shown, as well as Everett's on-ship details,
from jolly boat to raking transom to Goleta...and more.
(For future editions, it would be good to shorten the back cover descriptions which reveal too much of the story.)