Ebook: Saffire
Author: Brouwer Sigmund, Roosevelt Theodore
- Tags: FICTION--Biographical, FICTION--Christian--Historical, FICTION--Romance--Historical, Presidents, Presidents--United States, Fiction, Biographical fiction, Love stories, History, Historical fiction, Electronic books, Roosevelt Theodore -- 1858-1919 -- Fiction, Roosevelt Theodore -- 1858-1919, Presidents -- United States -- Fiction, Panama -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction, Canal Zone -- History -- Fiction, FICTION -- Christian -- Historical, FICTION -- Romance -- Historical, FICTION -- Biographical, Canal Z
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
- City: Canal Zone;Panama;United States
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
"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"--;"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. 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. It's in this buffered Zone where, in 1909, James Holt takes that first step to protect a mulatto girl 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. A love story set within a historical mystery, Saffire is brings to vibrant life the most impressive and embattled engineering achievement of the twentieth-century"--
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