The Defining Sea

The Defining SeaCrime, corruption, and colonialism as well as compassion, survival, and dark humor are woven into The Puerto Rico Trilogy, which consists of three separate character driven novels that focus on the Caribbean island and its complex political and social relationship with the U. S. The Defining Sea. book two, was also sparked by U. S. Puerto Rico history. Its plot is derived from the U. S, Navy's decades long live fire and bombing exercises on the

Crime, corruption, and colonialism--as well as compassion, survival, and dark humor--are woven into The Puerto Rico Trilogy, which consists of three separate character-driven novels that focus on the Caribbean island and its complex political and social relationship with the U.S.

The Defining Sea. book two, was also sparked by U.S.-Puerto Rico history. Its plot is derived from the U.S, Navy's decades-long live fire and bombing exercises on the inhabited offshore Puerto Rico island of Vieques, which caused death and serious illness. The story told concerns a 20-year-old University of Puerto Rico student who delivers drugs between the island and the states to raise money for a scholarship that will be named after his girlfriend, killed by police during a protest against the Navy's maneuvers.