Poison makers
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jimmy Olsen
Edition: 1st Hoffman House Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Hoffman House Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoffman, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780980183542; 9780980183559
Subjects: Private investigators; Murder; Vodou; Fiction
Description: While investigating the seemingly innocent death of the U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Edgar Espinosa-Jones (EJ) finds the Caribbean islands of the 1970s seething with political intrigue, revolutionaries, superstition, violence, and love affairs--with the curse of voodoo magic over all.
Table of contents: title: OFFICIALLY, ADAM QUIST, THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLICAN, DIED OF A HEART ATTACK ONE MORNING IN 1972, BUT READERS KNOW THAT HE'S BEEN POISONED BY A VOODOO CONCOCTION. GUILELESS PART-TIME PI EDGAR ESPPINOSA-JONES (EJ), OUR DOMINICAN AMERICAN HERO, IS HIRED TO INVESTIGATE QUIST'S DEATH. BIG MISTAKE! EJ'S OVER HIS HEAD WITH THE MYRIAD CARIBBEAN CULTURES; title: HAITIAN AND CUBAN POLITICS AND RELIGION MIXED IN WITH A HEADY DOSE OF THE CIA AND THE MARINES. HE IS SENT TO WASHINGTON, DC, AND NEW YORK CITY TO INTERVIEW THE QUIST FAMILY AND BARELY MAKES IT BACK TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ALIVE. EVEN WORSE, THE EVIL FORCES TRYING TO KILL HIM; title: BECAUSE HE KNOWS TOO MUCH AT THIS POINT; title: ARE PURSUING HIS FAMILY, TOO.