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Serpents in the Sun

By: Hugh B. Cave
Narrated by: Kenneth Campbell
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The Bennett family moved to Jamaica after inheriting a coffee plantation in the Blue Mountains. This novel covers three generations of their lives, loves, triumphs and failures as the build an amazing, profitable plantation, producing some of the finest coffee in the world, and then run afoul of history. This novel , in many ways, parallels the amazing life of it's author, Hugh B. Cave, who owned a plantation on the last road into the Blue Mountains in Jamaica, only to lose it to the government, along with the small fortune he'd built.

This novel, published posthumously, was the last great work in the career of one of America's most prolific authors, winner of multiple awards for his fiction, prolific beyond belief in the days of the pulps, and then the 'slicks' like The Saturday Evening Post and Boy's Life, through propaganda novels during the war years and finally through a series of short stories and novels in his latter years that will forever endear him to lovers of genre fiction. Serpents in the Sun is a novel that consumed years of Cave's life - and contains generations. It is one of his finest works, available now for the first time.

This will be a Crossroad Press production.

©2011 The Irrevocable Estate of Hugh B. Cave, Joe Testa, Trustee (P)2012 David N. Wilson Fiction Historical Fiction Caribbean

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wrong title misleading

the story is decent enough but should not be marketed as a mystery but more as a memoir and the title is just wrong, call it Glen-Co if nothing else.

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