Publisher's Synopsis
Join us for one of the greatest novels ever written, an evocative tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set in South America. This is an immensely exciting tale of love, politics and corruption. When his father is murdered by a dictator, an Englishman, arrives to take control of his family's silver mine, but ends up igniting a civil war between rival warlords determined to seize his riches. When a dockworker takes it out to sea, disaster strikes, changing the fates of everyone involved.
