Footsteps on a Drum

"Today I saw my wife's lover, Cunningham, Walking down the street. He didn't limp, he played with his key ring and smiled at passers-by, and had he not been dead for seven hours at least, I could have sworn it was him. Vivid and haunting, "Footsteps on a Drum" is set in the beautiful but deadly jungles of the Caribbean, where Cunningham, a British ex-patriot, is arranging to smuggle Haitian laborers into the Dominican Republic. Many Haitians believe he's their savior while others think he's a greedy opportunist. More worrisome to Cunningham, is that several of his friends have already been murdered, and someone's trying to kill him. Is it the wealthy farmers who think he's gouging them? A corrupt police chief? Or someone's jealous husband? The plot twists are as frequent and unnerving as Dominican mountain roads. A riveting portrayal of conspiracy and revolution, murder and romance, "Footsteps on a Drum" also explores the frequently cruel politics of Haiti and its bewitching world of voodoo.