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1926 – Nicaragua was once the setting for an occupation and political intrigue and Eric Burnett is the perfect guide to take you back in time to 1926
Pearl Lagoon
What you need to know before your trail
A young consular officer is stationed in Nicaragua just as the country is undergoing some of the most turbulent times in its history. The US is carrying out its plans of expansion in the region and the military presence is all around. The local people had to work and live as best they could in the new and difficult times. One local woman Dorette Fox, takes to the new situation better than most – she takes to not one but two dashing officers. But in these troubled times, dancing with the devil can get you burned.
Travel Guide
The two marines wore the only live drab in a sea of white shirts down at the dock. The East coast was in the height of the rain season, but so far this morning the sun had been out. All the Nicaraguans dressed for it…
A quiet almost serene scene until a fight breaks out and the chaos of the county is revealed. The port is so symbolic for the country and its people since the port and trade are vital to the country’s new beginning as it was at the time of the American influence.
With the country and region undergoing such change, the mix between the locals and the Americans is evoked in many ways giving a keen insight in to what life in the country would have been like then –
From a love triangle results a series of murders and a diplomat, a somewhat incompetent one, comes to the country in order to find out what the shootings really mean. Dorette Fox seems to know a lot more than she is letting on. Cordell, the US official in question travels from Bluefields to Pearl Lagoon and Dorette is more than a necessary port of call.
Set against a real historical backdrop with a bloody mystery at its core, this novel really shines a bright light on a time and place we booktrailers knew little of…until now.
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