When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He's sent to the remote town of Jeremie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea.
Terry is swept up in the town's complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Senateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. When Terry falls in love with the judge's wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster.
By:
Mischa Berlinski Imprint: Atlantic Books Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: Main Dimensions:
Height: 205mm,
Width: 150mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 433g ISBN:9781848871380 ISBN 10: 1848871384 Pages: 400 Publication Date:23 November 2016 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Mischa Berlinski was born in New York in 1973. He studied classics at the University of California at Berkeley and at Columbia University. He is the author of the novel Fieldwork.