Darker Angels
Author: S P Somtow
 
1865: Abraham Lincoln lies in state in New York and the widow of a famous abolitionist has a chance encounter with Walt Whitman . . .
1864: In a makeshift church on an island in the Potomac, a boy evangelist is raising the dead and a were-leopard is stalking the night . . .
1863: Jimmy Lee Cox deserts from a battlefield in Virginia and meets a mysterious one-eyed shaman, raised in Haiti, returned from the land of the dead . . .
1806: Trinity College, Cambridge: and aristocratic poet learns how to raise the dead from a young one-eyed West Indian slave . . .
1803: Revolution sweeps over Haiti and a youthful American encounters Marie Laveau in the hold of a haunted ship . . .
At the heart of the tale is the houngan Old Joseph, a voodoo priest, who has given up one eye in exchange for the ultimate knowledge and who has dared to raise the dead from the battlefields of the Civil War.
 
VISTA BOOKS 1998 EDITION
ISBN: 9780575600607