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It is 1941. Rose and Dr. Jack Blake, on the run from suffocating lives in Richmond, Virginia s upper-crust society, arrive in Macao, Portugal s Far East colony. She is nineteen, he forty, and both their names and marriage are fictions.
Soon, Jack is working at one of the local hospitals, charged with the impossible task of treating the tens of thousands of refugees pouring into the city from war-torn mainland China. Rose, pregnant with a child she isn t certain she wants, becomes involved with a network of spies orchestrated by a charismatic Eurasian businessman, Charlie Ho. As Rose and Jack s relationship unravels, Hong Kong is attacked, bringing the Pacific War to Macao s doorstep.
Meanwhile, Antonio Ferreira, Chief of Police in this so-called City of the Name of God, wrestles with twin obsessions. While relentlessly pursuing Wong Kong Kit, a bandit who is throttling the flow of smuggled rice that is keeping both Macao's residents and refugees alive, Ferreira contemplates abandoning his family and career for the sake of the Singsong girl Lanhua, an elegant prostitute.
Against the backdrop of a rapidly-spreading World War, and the growing threat of Japanese invasion, these three restless souls search for the meaning of Love, Freedom, Responsibility and Salvation in the Casablanca of the Orient.
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London, 1701. Thomas Tewksbury, a 15-year-old orphaned pickpocket, is conscripted into service aboard the slaver Melinda, bound for Africa. On the way, he is apprenticed to the Ship's Surgeon, Mister Durst, from whom he learns the profession, though this hardly prepares him for what lies ahead: blistering heat, tropical disease, and above all the horrors of "The Trade."
Upon Durst's untimely death, Thomas takes his place as Surgeon and when pirates capture the Melinda near Hispaniola, he becomes a Forced Man, serving against his will under some of the most infamous rogues in History: Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, and Bartholomew Roberts.
Along the way, however, he comes to realize that the greatest danger he will face won't come from pirates or pirate hunters or storms at sea, but from the dark inclinations within himself.
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The Must Trilogy
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"Write the kind of stories you want to read."
Someone gave me that advice long ago, but it took a while to figure out what kind of stories those were,
ones I'd been looking for but that weren't being written anymore: adventure novels with
exotic locales, lost worlds, sweep and scope, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard updated for the modern age.
I like to think that the Must Trilogy delivers all of that.
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A high school girl nearly drowns during a bicycle "tour for the cure" for breast cancer. A father checks his mentally ill son into the emergency room. A lawyer reexamines his past and present in light of a horrific car crash that killed three high school classmates. These long and short stories focus upon events which transcend the characters' day-to-day existences, moving them towards new lives.
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