ASIN: B00BROAGNE
Publisher: Kirk Colvin
Pages: 557
The time: late 1985, early 1986. The place: Haiti. “Bloodless Coup” is the story of the final months of the brutal Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier regime. The narrator is the newly arrived Coast Guard Attaché to the American Embassy in Port-au-Prince. The “Commandant” quickly becomes an unwitting catalyst in a dangerous and complex plot to drive Baby Doc out of Haiti. His friendship with a powerful Haitian houngan (voodoo priest) leads him into a world of intrigue, magic, and mysticism that is far beyond anything he has ever experienced. He finds himself immersed in a bizarre world where zombis are everywhere, where the boundary between reality and dream constantly fluctuates and dissolves, and where life and death are interchangeable.As the death throes of the Duvalier dictatorship become increasingly violent, the Commandant is caught in a whirlpool of seduction, betrayal, brutality ...
