Harbor of Spies A Novel of Historic Havana

Name: Harbor of Spies
Author: Robin Lloyd

Auteur: Robin Lloyd

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Robin Lloyd

Engels
Paperback
9781493060900
16 augustus 2021
320 pagina's

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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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 augustus 2021
Aantal pagina's: 320
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Robin Lloyd
Hoofduitgeverij: Mcbooks Press

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Product breedte: 145 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 226 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 145 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 226 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 458 g

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EAN: 9781493060900

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

Historische romans

Oorlogsromans

Boeken
Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Periode: ca. 1800-1910
Land: Cuba

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