Chasing the Black Eagle
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Bruce Geddes- Historical adventure fiction in the vein of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes, inspired by the extraordinary real life of Hubert Julian
- Young Arthur Tormes is impelled by the FBI to covertly follow and report on larger-than-life 'Black Eagle of Harlem' Hubert Julian — a pilot, inventor, adventurer, charlatan, and possible threat to America
- A story of frenemies, with Arthur and Julian both sharing Trinidadian heritage but placed on separate sides of the FBI agent's insidious plan to monitor Julian's activities
- A sweeping historical setting takes readers from 1920s Harlem Renaissance in New York City to the Italian invasion of Emperor Haile Selassie's Ethiopia in 1935
- Author's second novel after 2018's The Higher the Monkey Climbs
Publication
2023
Pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dundurn Press
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