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Harbor of Spies - A Novel of Historic Havana (Paperback)
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Harbor of Spies - A Novel of Historic Havana (Paperback)
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Loot Price R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
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Harbor of Spies is an historical novel set in Havana in 1863 during
the American Civil War, when the Spanish colonial city was alive
with intrigue and war related espionage. The protagonist - a young
American ship captain named Everett Townsend - is pulled into the
war, not as a Naval officer, as he had once hoped, but as the
captain of a blockade-running schooner. The rescue of a man outside
Havana harbor sets in motion a plot where Townsend finds himself
trapped by circumstances beyond his control. He soon realizes how
this good deed has put his own life in danger, entangling him in a
sensitive murder investigation. Townsend is forced to work for a
profiteering Spanish merchant who introduces him to a world of
spies, blockade runners, and slave traders. As a foreigner and an
outsider in Cuba, he struggles to maintain his own sense of
identity. As he grapples with the uncertain moral terrain he finds
in Havana, Townsend becomes ever more involved with the mystery
surrounding the murder. From the bars, to the docks, to the dance
halls, Townsend's path moves from colonial Havana to the slave
plantations in the interior. There amid the harsh cruelty he
discovers in the Cuban countryside, he unexpectedly begins to
unravel a family mystery. Together with the daughter of an American
innkeeper in Havana he confronts the veiled, dangerous forces he
finds on the island. The novel is a richly drawn portrait of
Spanish colonial Havana at a time when the city was flush with
sugar wealth and filled with signs of the American Civil War. It is
a realistic look at Cuba's role in the war, and the importance of
the scores of blockade running ships- both sail and steam- that ran
the gauntlet of the Union blockade from Havana into the Gulf of
Mexico.
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