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The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
Bob Shacochis
Atlantic Monthly Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 3, 2013
640 pages ISBN: 0802119824 EAN: 9780802119827 Kindle: B00CIWZ8JQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Renowned through four award-winning books for his gritty and
revelatory visions of the Caribbean, Bob Shacochis returns
to occupied Haiti in The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
before sweeping across time and continents to unravel
tangled knots of romance, espionage, and vengeance. In
riveting prose, Shacochis builds a complex and disturbing
story about the coming of age of America in a pre-9/11 world. When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to
investigate the murder of a beautiful and seductive
photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape
riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It’s the late
1990s, a time of brutal guerrilla warfare and civilian
kidnappings, and everyone has secrets. The journalist, whom
he knew years before as Jackie Scott, had a bigger
investment in Haiti than it seemed, and to make sense of her
death, Tom must plunge back into a thorny past and his
complicated ties to both Jackie and Eville Burnette, a
member of Special Forces who has been assigned to protect her. From the violent, bandit-dominated terrain of World War II
Dubrovnik to the exquisitely rendered Istanbul in the 1980s,
Shacochis brandishes Jackie’s shadowy family history with
daring agility. Caught between her first love and the
unsavory attentions of her father—an elite spy and
quintessential Cold War warrior pressuring his daughter to
follow in his footsteps—seventeen-year-old Jackie hatches a
desperate escape plan that puts her on course to becoming
the soulless woman Tom equally feared and desired. Set over fifty years and in four countries backdropped by
different wars, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul is a
magnum opus that brings to life, through the mystique and
allure of history, an intricate portrait of catastrophic
events that led up to the war on terror and the America we
are today.
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