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001			on1317832251
003			OCoLC
005			20230510152843.0
008			221114t20232023ctu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2022054489
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dJAS _dNFG
020			_a9781493072316 _q(cloth : _qalk. paper)
020			_a1493072315 _q(cloth : _qalk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)1317832251
042			_apcc
092			_aLLOYD, _bROBIN
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLloyd, Robin, _d1950- _eauthor. _9238527
245	1	0	_aHidden cargo : _ba novel / _cRobin Lloyd.
264		1	_aEssex, Connecticut : _bLyons Press, _c[2023]
264		4	_c©2023
300			_aix, 313 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aFive months after the end of the Civil War, Acting Navy Lieutenant Everett Townsend is awaiting discharge in Key West. The end of the war has left him uncertain about his future and full of regret about the end of his relationship with Emma, the Cuban American daughter of a Havana boarding house owner. His Spanish grandmother--a slave owner who runs a prosperous sugar plantation in the Cuban countryside--is dreaming that Everett will return and take over the family business, a prospect that sickens him. Returning from a routine supply mission from Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, he and his men are caught in a hurricane and witness a shipwreck in the Marquesas Keys. When they investigate, they discover a locked cargo hold with the dead bodies of Black freedmen. When Townsend reports this unsettling incident to his distracted Naval commander in Key West, he's encouraged to drop the matter. But he can't shake his suspicions that the poor souls from the cargo hold were destined for re-enslavement in the sugar fields of Spanish Cuba. The murder of an American sailor in a Cuban port provides Townsend with a reason to return to Cuba and continue his investigation even as it reunites him with Emma who has joined the secretive Cuban resistance to Spanish colonial rule. A rescue of a Navy veteran leads to more clues and helps convince Townsend to become a government informant operating in the interior of Cuba. He goes to live with his Spanish grandmother at her sugar plantation in the Cuban countryside. There Townsend finds himself facing an impossible choice between the Cuban-American woman he loves and his tradition-bound Spanish grandmother. As he grapples with this clash of personalities, Townsend uncovers the details of a conspiracy which forces him to come face to face with his own family's close ties to slavery.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNavy _xOfficials and employees _vFiction.
650		0	_aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) _vFiction. _962684
650		0	_aShipwrecks _vFiction. _945688
650		0	_aMissing persons _xInvestigation _vFiction. _99811
655		7	_aSea fiction. _2lcgft _9295899
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2lcgft _9464
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c367559 _d367559