Ebony & Eden. In the heat of home... where the hurricanes roam.

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	• Uncertain Paradise: 1973 John, W. Cassell Inkwater Press, 2007 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Ebony & Eden. In the heat of home... where the hurricanes roam.

Ebony & Eden. In the heat of home... where the hurricanes roam.

UNCERTAIN PARADISE is filled with an uncanny feeling of the teeming movement of LIFE itself, in a primordial essence available only on a small, primitive island on our globe, a feeling which John W. Cassell captured in UP for a reader like me who has never been off the USA landmass.

On page 315 of the trade paperback:

>> The toll or destruction among these pathetic cardboard and sheetmetal structures where some eighty percent of the island's people lived was close to one hundred percent in every hurricane.

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Just Whose Destiny Are We Talking About Here?

I homed in on this story in hopes of finding the literary paradigm for the bold African-ruled nation striking out in favor of a unique African agenda. So far, it's a no-go, but there is just enough hope for Part Two as yet unwritten to have me check back.

Clearly the old governor-general is too reactionary to be the focal point for this new direction. The Marxist Opposition, whether black, brown or yellow, history has proved them nothing but red. Webster has charisma, Perkins has intellect, but they are red, pure and simple.

Gentry may have been on the right track seeking to purge the air militia of its neo-colonial influence, but he was too clumsy. His ordering the trial with tainted evidence likely could have gotten the government in fatal trouble, no matter how likely the evidence of the taint would have never seen the light of day.

My hopes are on Colgate, who comes across as enough of an engima to have anything up his sleeve, including the bold pro-African directions I hope for.

His policies up until now make me wince. The Dual-Citizenship Bill. The fostering of the neo-colonial influence on the Air Militia. The at least passive acceptance of the economic power in the hands of the white banker M. D. Hillary. All of this points the wrong way. Or does it?

He has also sown the seeds of a totalitatian guided democarcy. His SIB watches Hayes and is aware of his racist attitudes. It's just possible that he is gathering together as much foreign wealth as possible before he takes off his mask and in one mighty expropriation gathers their wealth into the hands of his people.

I give this story five stars because such possibilities are clearly suggested. A lot will depend on his attitude when he returns from the Commonwealth Air Ministers Conference to find Cassell knee-deep in collaboration with Richard Nixon's imperialist America. Granted there is the dire threat of that secret base to handle first. Once that is out of the way I feel we are going to see fairly quickly just whose destiny Desmond Colgate is really looking out for.

I hope the white author does not flinch from the challenge his tantalizingly ambiguous characters suggest. I hope we find in St. Margaret's that literary paradigm I am seeking. I will be watching for Part Two of Uncertain Paradise.

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Entertainment with a capital E

I admit I'm only half-way through, but mind you that was at one sitting. this book has fabulous entertainment value with riveting action in imaginative settings.

Though it's fictitious, I have a vivd picture of the island and its people. Cassell has made it come alive for his readers. His first chapter was strong and exciting.

A great book I'm going all the way with. Ted

NOT SAMOA BUT HAS EXCITEMENTS

My friend JC writes this book at the end of his time with us on Amerika Samoa. Many people thinks he writes about Samoa but not true! This is good adventure about a fiction island. Many things are like Samoa in this island, but it too is very different. The beginning is VERY strong about almost having World War III and a great story builds from there. This is a great story of Cold War tensions as well as a continuing of the series he began with Crossroads: 1969.

This book has all essential parts of good political and military fiction. The characters are interesting, the action great!

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The sequel to DeVilliers County Blues: 1972. With the manhunt for the murderer[s] of Jerry Fischer going into high gear, and with Underworld Boss Clemente Di Stefano believed ready to take revenge for a nearly one year delay in getting Fischer's incriminating ledgers to him,John and Connie flee the United States for the poverty-stricken Isle of St. Margaret's.

St. Margaret's is becoming independent April 15, 1973 and Communist guerillas step up their attacks to achieve by force what they were denied at the ballot box. Connie is shortly kidnapped while John is involuntarily impressed into the Air Militia where he is handed an impossible mission to perform, a mission that leads to him being court-martialed for a capital offense.

The beautiful and mysterious Sybil Jack, daughter of one of the island's most powerful clans and suspected of Communist leanings by the new nation's secret police, shortly ingratiates herself into John's affections as the tensions mount and St. Margaret's fights for its life as a free country within the British Commonwealth. As the year progresses, the young expatriates find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue, treason and murder.

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