The exciting third installment in the atmospheric, JT Ellington
series.
"Brother, a dead body can't run from a coffin, but their spirit sure as
hell can try."
1969, Bristol. Bajan ex-cop and reluctant private detective, Joseph "JT"
Tremaine Ellington is still trading in cash and favours, lending a
helping hand to those too scared to go to the police or anyone trying to
stay one step ahead of them.
Life is tough for JT, who is broke. It is about to get a lot tougher
when he receives a telegram informing him of a tragedy that has unfolded
thousands of miles away. Ellington's sister, Bernice has been murdered.
Ellington wants to make the long journey back to his home on the island
of Barbados to pay his final respects and to settle his late sister's
affairs. To do so, he must accept a ticket from his shady cousin, Vic,
on condition he travels to New York first, where Vic is building himself
a criminal empire in Harlem.
Vic appoints the beguiling Evagelina Laveau to mind his cousin, along
with his henchmen, Clefus Horton and a hot-headed Bajun, Pigfoot, a man
always quick with his knife. JT soon discovers that Vic is the American
end of an operation that stretches back to Barbados, and that Vic's
business partner is Conrad Monroe, the man responsible for the death of
JT's wife and daughter. And as JT finds himself embroiled in the world
of drugs, bent law, voodoo, and the bitter legacy of slavery, he must
return to the island of his birth and face the demons of his past.
