The Black Sun

In THE BLACK SUN, the background is no longer the slave-breeding farms of the pre-Civil War South, but the lush and violent island of Haiti, where a handsome, brawny young New Englander has come to claim his Caribbean plantation. Here on his island in the sun, Armes Holbrook falls in love with another man's wife, becomes enmeshed with a lovely half-caste who initiates him into the strange and sensual rites of voodoo, and plays a blazing and tumultuous role in the bloody revolution led by the giant slave, Henry Christophe .. .