In this heartbreaking trip into the colonial past, brothers Emile and Lucien set out from Martinique in 1765 to smuggle back slaves taken by English invaders, the younger brother viewing the trip as an adventure and the older brother viewing it with a weary lack of illusion. From the author of }The Observations{ SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITING ASSOCIATION GOLD CROWN AWARDBased on a remarkable and little-known true story. Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are charged by their French master with a mission.
