Caribbee
By Thomas Hoover
“And where do you expect you’ll be going?” She found her footing again, and this time, she planned to keep it.
“Let’s say, on a little adventure. To see a new part of the world.” He was staring at her through the candlelight. “I’ve had about enough of this island of yours. Miss Bedford. As well as the new idea that slavery was going to make everybody rich. I’m afraid it’s not my style.”
“But I gather you’re responsible for our noble new order here, Captain.”
He looked down at the flask, his smile vanishing. “If that’s true, I’m not especially proud of the fact.”
At last, she had him. All his arrogance had dissolved. Just like Jeremy, she asked him to tell her what he’d done in the battle at Marston Moor. Yet, for some reason, she pulled back, still studying him.
“It’s hard to understand you, Captain. You help them steal sugarcane from the Portugals, then decide you don’t like it.”
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Thomas Hoover
Thomas Hoover began his writing career with two classic non-fiction books on Far Eastern art (Zen Culture, Random House, 1977) and religion (The Zen Experience, Penguin, 1980).
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He then moved into fiction writing with two critically acclaimed novels about English sailors in the early Seventeenth century, one set in India, The Moghul and one in the Caribbean, Caribbee. Critics have compared his historical novels to those of James Clavell and James A. Mitchner, and his books have twice been optioned for TV mini-series production.
His most recent novels, including The Touchdown Gene, a novel about DNA manipulation, examine topics at the cutting edge of medicine and genetics.
Hoover also acquired a doctorate in oceanography and later served as senior vice president of an architect-engineering firm in New York, where he has lived for several decades. His vices include being an avid sailor and a recognized collector of Indian classical music.
Thomas Hoover
