Stephen Warren – författare

When Jake Winship, a burned-out Wall Street executive attempts to escape his unsettled past, he becomes trapped in a nightmarish future. Seeking his nave version of paradise sailing through the Caribbean, unleashed terror stalks him and his reluctant wife Vanessa at every port of call. Unaware of their hidden cargo, they become unwitting victims of a narco-terrorist network that tightens its noose on them until it is too late to hide or run. The suspenseful chase that unfolds becomes a plethora of perils and predicaments forcing them to unravel the hidden agendas of their marriage while overcoming the sadistic schemes of their ruthless pursuers. After their illusory bliss of the tropics is shattered by a perfect storm on the high seas, they must turn to innocent islanders who are soon entangled in the same web of terror. Now in a desperate race against time, the hunted are forced to become the hunters - with Jake and Vanessa discovering that only love, courage and cunning can prevail over the twisted evils of their lost paradise.

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond.

Warren''s deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.

In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier." Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at the crossroads of empires and competing tribes, embracing mobility and often moving willingly toward violent borderlands. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the Shawnees ranged over the eastern half of North America and used their knowledge to foster notions of pan-Indian identity that shaped relations between Native Americans and settlers in the revolutionary era and beyond.

Warren''s deft analysis makes clear that Shawnees were not anomalous among native peoples east of the Mississippi. Through migration, they and their neighbors adapted to disease, warfare, and dislocation by interacting with colonizers as slavers, mercenaries, guides, and traders. These adaptations enabled them to preserve their cultural identities and resist coalescence without forsaking their linguistic and religious traditions.