When 'Smiley' Riley Jackson, the handsome water-taxi driver, turns up at sea with his face chewed away by the fishes and a bullet wound in his chest, the finger of suspicion quickly points to the Cunninghams, wealthy Americans visiting the Eastern Caribbean island of St Cecilia. Not only has Hazel Cunningham, a regular djanmet, been spending a lot of time with the deceased behind her husband's back, she has also caught the attention of the close-knit community in LaPointe Sable by threatening to 'shoot herself a nigger', presumably with her husband's unlicensed pistol. Awa! A quest to bring the Americans to trial unfolds in paradise: but where, on an economically stagnant island cursed with incompetent, self-regarding officials and divided along racial and class-based lines, are truth and justice to be found?
- ISBN10 1405099054
- ISBN13 9781405099059
- Publish Date 4 January 2008
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 4 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Macmillan Education
- Imprint Macmillan Caribbean
- Format Paperback
- Pages 392
- Language English