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Dead Man in Paradise - 9781595581815

Un libro in lingua di Mackinnon J. B. edito da Perseus Distribution Services, 2007

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At nightfall on June 22, 1965, amid the turmoil of revolution and U.S. military occupation, a soldier emerged from the outskirts of a small town in the Dominican Republic to report that he had just shot and killed two policemen and an outspoken Catholic priest. It's the opening scene in a mystery that, forty years later, compels writer J. B. MacKinnon - the priest's nephew, born five years after the incident - to visit the island nation for himself. Beginning with scant official information, he embarks on a chilling investigation of what many believe was a carefully plotted assassination - and on a search for the uncle he never knew.
Dead Man in Paradise is a true story that offers no easy answers about the truth. MacKinnon's quest takes him to corners of the country far from the Caribbean paradise seen by millions of tourists; he meets with former revolutionaries and shadowy generals from the era of dictatorship, family members of the slain policemen, and struggling Dominicans for whom the dead priest is a martyr, perhaps even a saint.
J. B. MacKinnon uncovers a story inseparable from the brutal history of the New World, from the fallout of American invasion, and from the longing for social justice that touched his uncle's generation.

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