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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Fabric Type: 9781601455314
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Region Code: 308
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THE OYSTER WARS carries the reader through a turbulent period, immediately following the Civil War, when Chesapeake Bay watermen fought to the death over oysters, or "white gold" as some called the bay's precious resource.
It is a time in our history when young men were shanghaied and often held in a remote prison, known in the day as a "paddy shack", while waiting to be sold into servitude to a ruthless "drudge boat" captain.
On All Hallow's Eve, 1867, Landon Crockett Wallis is shanghaied from the waterfront at Baltimore's Fell's Point. Haynie McKenna, a former Union soldier, agrees to search the marshes and woods of Somerset County, Maryland in an effort to find Wallis.
McKenna's race to free the Wallis boy pits him against an ex-Rebel sharpshooter, the malevolent Drumm brothers and his own family ghosts.
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I was given a copy of "The Oyster Wars". What a wonderful gift! For a few exciting days, I lived during the latter 1800's in and around the Chesapeake Bay. The many complex characters kept my interest as I shared their 19th century lives.
It was fascinating to be enlightened about the early history of the Chesapeake Bay area, but shocking to learn of the kidnapping of everyday people from the local docks. Mr. Faulkner's experience in the FBI comes through as the hero recognizes important ... Read More
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I bought this book to be polite. I'd met the author at a party and found him interesting. I bought the book the next day.
I found the first few pages to be a tough start. I'm not used to reading historical fiction. But, those few pages painted a world (Maryland's Eastern Shore) and time (after the civil war) that was long gone and different from today.
Once I got past those pages, I was hooked. This book has it all: Murder, intrigue, spies, theft, scoundrels, hero's, ... Read More
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