| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
327 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"I reminded myself that once you start to defend someone, it's difficult to find a place to stop. But I went ahead and took that first step anyway. For President Teddy Roosevelt, controlling the east-west passage between two oceans mattered so much that he orchestrated a revolution to control it. His command was to 'let the dirt fly' and for years, the American Zone of the Panama Canal mesmerized the world, working in uneasy co-existence with the Panamanian aristocrats. It's in this buffered Zone where, in 1909, James Holt takes that first step to protect a mulatto girl named Saffire, expecting a short and simple search for her mother. Instead it draws him away from safety, into a land haunted by a history of pirates, gold runners, and plantation owners, all leaving behind ghosts of their interwoven desires sins and ambitions, ghosts that create the web of deceit and intrigue of a new generation of revolutionary politics. It will also bring him together with a woman who will change his course or bring an end to it. A love story set within a historical mystery, Saffire is brings to vibrant life the most impressive and embattled engineering achievement of the twentieth-century"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Brouwer details the events behind one of mankind's greatest engineering achievements, the Panama Canal, and the one unassuming man who made it all happen"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Fiction.
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Presidents -- United States -- Fiction.
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Panama -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Canal Zone -- History -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- Christian -- Historical.
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FICTION -- Romance -- Historical.
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FICTION -- Biographical.
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. (OCoLC)fst00032496
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Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
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Canal Zone. (OCoLC)fst01207252
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Panama. (OCoLC)fst01205585
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Love stories.
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Romance fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Brouwer, Sigmund, 1959-, author. Saffire. First edition. Colorado Springs, Colorado : WaterBrook Press, 2016 9780307729521 (DLC) 2016022492 |
| ISBN |
9780307446510 (paperback) |
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0307446514 (paperback) |
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9780307729521 (ebook) |
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