"Steven D. Salinger - WHITE DARKNESS"
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In WHITE DARKNESS, Salinger explores more complex and mature themes, creating vivid landscapes that are gripping and spine tingling. Using stories that could have been pulled straight from today's headlines, Salinger leads us through the exotic and beautiful, but too often corrupt and deadly, world of Haiti, as well as the dangerous streets of New York City.
From its blood-chilling opening scene, WHITE DARKNESS will grab you by the throat and keep on squeezing. On the island nation of Haiti, the shadowy Colonel Hugo Ferray is making another of his surprise nighttime visits. While he sits in the elegant dining room entertaining the Dalwani family with witty conversation, his armed troops are silently surrounding the house and snipping the telephone wires. When preparations are complete, the colonel slowly and mercilessly transforms his polite social call into a sadistic ritual of pillage, rape, arson and murder.
Fabrice Lacroix works for the wealthy Jouvier family. He spends his days tending their garden and daydreaming about living in America with his girlfriend Antoinette. But a terrifying, late night confrontation with Colonel Ferray will propel Fabrice on a journey to America more harrowing than he could have imagined. His escape will leave his precious Antoinette to face the colonel's savage fury alone. Ultimately, Fabrice and Antoinette will place their lives in the hands of the l'wahs, the revered Voodoo spirits who are the living gods of Haiti.
At thirty-nine, Moe Rosen is struggling to maintain the family jewelry store in a once elegant Brooklyn neighborhood now crowded with West Indian immigrants-people whose language, customs and beliefs he does not understand. When Moe rescues his Haitian neighbor from a brutal mugging, he will be drawn into her strange, alien, darkly superstitious world where romance and prosperity will lead to violence, kidnapping and the very real threat of death.
After methodically destroying all traces of his former life, Colonel Ferray will relocate to America and assume a new identity. When he discovers that much of his stored treasure has been stolen, his lust for vengeance will take him straight to the West Indian section of Brooklyn. Rather than suppress his vicious impulses, the change of scene will increase his appetite for innocent women and orchestrated bloodshed.
As the evil of Haiti seeps into the streets of New York, a deadly clash involving the colonel, Moe Rosen, Fabrice Lacroix and the mystical spirits of Haitian Voodoo becomes inevitable. WHITE DARKNESS tells the remarkable story of men and women whose, love, strength and courage will eventually lead them to there freedom or death.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Salinger lived and worked for nearly two decades in the Caribbean. Today he lives and writes in New Jersey. Salinger creates a classic thriller with WHITE DARKNESS in the tradition of James Lee Burke and Michael Connely, that will bring even the most jaded of readers to the edge of their seats.
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