Saffire

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 begins to protect a defenseless 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 brings to life the most impressive-and embattled- engineering achievement of the twentieth-century.