Saffire
Author: Brouwer, Sigmund
ISBN: 9780307446510
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 16 Aug 2016
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
In the tradition of unforgettable historical novels featuring remarkable characters, like I>Let the Great World Spin /I>and I>The Daughter's Walk/I>, Brouwer details the events behind one of mankind's greatest engineering achievements, the Panama Canal, and the one unassuming man who made it all happen.BR>BR>b>I reminded myself that once you start to defend someone, it's difficult to find a place to stop. But I went ahead and took that first step anyway. . ./b>br> br>For President Teddy Roosevelt, controlling the east-west passage between two oceans mattered so much that he orchestrated a revolution to control it. His command was to 'let the dirt fly' and for years, the American Zone of the Panama Canal mesmerized the world, working in uneasy co-existence with the Panamanian aristocrats. br>br>It's in this buffered Zone where, in 1909, James Holt begins to protect adefenselessgirl named Saffire, expecting a short and simple search for her mother. Instead it draws him away from safety, into a land haunted by a history of pirates, gold runners, and plantation owners, all leaving behind ghosts of their interwoven desires sins and ambitions, ghosts that create the web of deceit and intrigue of a new generation of revolutionary politics. It will also bring him together with a woman who will change his course-or bring an end to it.br> br> A love story set within a historical mystery,i> Saffire/i>brings to life the most impressive-and embattled- engineering achievement of the twentieth-century.
ISBN: 9780307446510
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 16 Aug 2016
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
In the tradition of unforgettable historical novels featuring remarkable characters, like I>Let the Great World Spin /I>and I>The Daughter's Walk/I>, Brouwer details the events behind one of mankind's greatest engineering achievements, the Panama Canal, and the one unassuming man who made it all happen.BR>BR>b>I reminded myself that once you start to defend someone, it's difficult to find a place to stop. But I went ahead and took that first step anyway. . ./b>br> br>For President Teddy Roosevelt, controlling the east-west passage between two oceans mattered so much that he orchestrated a revolution to control it. His command was to 'let the dirt fly' and for years, the American Zone of the Panama Canal mesmerized the world, working in uneasy co-existence with the Panamanian aristocrats. br>br>It's in this buffered Zone where, in 1909, James Holt begins to protect adefenselessgirl named Saffire, expecting a short and simple search for her mother. Instead it draws him away from safety, into a land haunted by a history of pirates, gold runners, and plantation owners, all leaving behind ghosts of their interwoven desires sins and ambitions, ghosts that create the web of deceit and intrigue of a new generation of revolutionary politics. It will also bring him together with a woman who will change his course-or bring an end to it.br> br> A love story set within a historical mystery,i> Saffire/i>brings to life the most impressive-and embattled- engineering achievement of the twentieth-century.
