#alternative history
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:06:56
Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:46:07
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:47:23
by Ben H. Winters
In this tale about an alternative history, Winters takes us on a journey through an America in which the Civil War never happened and slavery is still legal in four Southern states, known as ‘the Hard Four’. Victor, the protagonist, tracks down runaway slaves, then calls in their location so the U.S. Marshals can pick them up and return them to their owners. In this novel, no one was what he seemed, which resulted in some confusion.
I didn’t care for this nearly as much as I did The Last Policeman trilogy. In fact, I almost returned it to the library unfinished.