Voodoo Lounge: A Novel

Tory Harris and Junior Davis were in love -- a fierce drunk barracks love that finally exploded in deception and betrayal. When their paths cross again it is the opening days of the U.S. invasion of Haiti -- the strangest of Americas little wars of the 1990s. Rooted in the inner struggles of its characters and the weight of their secrets Voodoo Lounge is the story of addiction in a triangle: Harris a young driven sergeant the only female in her detachment; Davis the disgraced former soldier whose tragedy burns all it touches; and Marc Hall a Haitian-American intelligence officer sent to occupy his mothers homeland. In living detailed portraits the novel segues through an army boat an old missionary ship the depths of a Haitian prison and a squatters camp in the shadow of an HIV hospital. Voodoo Lounge emerges as a novel of longing and love of excess and bareness of betrayal flowing in the blood and the cold blind passion for redemption.