ISBN: 1-58939-943-9, $22.95, casebound, 372 pages
Arun Colbert is the half white/half black illegitimate son of a Royal Navy deserter. He turns to the war-torn waters off the Carolinas to hide from his shame, to redeem himself, and to find and slay a man he's never met - a man who murdered Arun's father and sold his mother into slavery. From the decks of a merchant vessel to those of an American privateer, Arun fights the British Navy, pirates, and the images of shame that push him toward an end he cannot see. Here is the story wherein the lives of both honorable and dishonorable men are spent or spared according to the whims of wind and tide, love and prejudices, sin and politics. Here are characters and occurrences brought from America's youth - a time of conflicting acts and emotions that would change forever the rights of men and nations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Having served several years in the United States Coast Guard, Michael A. Gibbs is intimately familiar with the settings of Inherited Shame. He has worked aboard rescue vessels along North Carolina's Outer Banks and he has served on a cutter patrolling the Atlantic from Greenland to Bermuda. His knowledge of the sea, its moods and inconsistencies, its sun-blazed dignity and merciless treacheries, lends authenticity to his writings of historical sea adventure. Michael is the author of two other novels, Call of the Whippoorwill and Fallon's Hope. A third published book, A Fairy of Anneliese Glade, is Michael's collection of science fiction and ghost stories. His articles and short fiction have appeared in several widely read magazines.
