Jean-Pierre Leroy – författare

Under The Rubble is the exciting and striking story of afamily under the rubble after the devastating earthquake ofJanuary 12, which severely hit Haiti.Saved by Belgian rescuers after having sent a text messageto one of his colleagues in a radio station, the director of apress center in Port-au-Prince is going to use his talents asan investigative journalist to fi nd his wife and daughter andfree his son kidnapped by a powerful gang leader escapedfrom prison. Under The Rubble half fi ction, half reality, depicts thesocio-political, economic and psychological Haitian lifeunder tents the fi rst 6 months following the earthquake.Love, solidarity, beliefs, poverty, insecurity are mingled inthis passionate story.

Two sailors, two talented sailboats builders, Bradon and Bruce Walson, are forced to run a large boat construction site in the North of Haiti on behalf of a powerful Turk-islander drug dealer called Rogan Bango who has kidnapped their father.The two brothers will have to face Commissioner Robert Mabial, chief of the Northern Police Special Force Unit, in his fight against clandestine boat trips and drug trafficking in the Caribbean. Shipwrecks in the Caribbean is a story of hope for a population almost left alone, facing drought, hunger and unemployment. Their only dream is to take the sea risking their lives to reach Turk and Caicos Islands and the coast of Florida--the promised land-- for a better life.