The blood of heaven
By: Kent Wascom
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780802121189
Subjects: History; Conspiracies; Robbers and outlaws; Roman; Fiction; NEW LIST 20130731; Historical fiction; Burr Conspiracy (1805-1807) fast (OCoLC)fst00841951; Amerikanisches Englisch; Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807; Frontier and pioneer life
Description: After running away from home, Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, settles on the rough frontier of West Florida where he is swept up in a violent new world as would-be revolutionaries plot to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of renegade Aaron Burr.

"The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French. The novel moves from the bordellos of Natchez, where Angel meets his love Red Kate to the Mississippi River plantations, where the brutal system of slave labor is creating fantastic wealth along with terrible suffering, and finally to the back rooms of New Orleans among schemers, dreamers, and would-be revolutionaries plotting to break away from the young United States and create a new country under the leadership of the renegade founding father Aaron Burr"--Publisher's web site.
Notes: Map on end papers.