Harbor of spies
Subtitle: a novel of historic Havana
By: Robin Lloyd
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781493032266
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Ship captains; Fiction; History
Description: Set in Havana in 1863 during the American Civil War, the Spanish colonial city was alive with intrigue and war-related espionage. The protagonist - a young American ship captain by the name of Everett Townsend - is pulled into the war, not as a Naval Academy midshipman, as he had once hoped, but as the captain of a Havana-based blockade-running schooner. Even as Townsend gets entangled in the war effort, he also finds himself being pulled into the dangerous investigation of a murdered English diplomat which threatens his own life.