Bay of Souls

Robert Stones remarkablenovel is a psychological thriller of razor-sharp intensity: mysterious erotic and deeply readable.. Michael Ahearn a professor at a rural college sheds his comfortable assumptions when he becomes obsessed with a new faculty member from the Caribbean Lara Purcell. An expert in Third World politics Lara is seductive dangerous and in thrall she claims to a voodoo spirit who has taken possession of her soul. Impassioned and determined Michael pursues Lara to her native island of St. Trinity heedless of the political upheaval there. Together they desperately attempt to reclaim all that Lara has lost. Yet island intrigue ensnares them. Lara sacrifices herself to ritual and superstition. Michael is caught unawares in a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In his feverish state of mind the world becomes an ever-shifting phantasmagoria. He is himself possessed.. In Bay of Souls readers will recognize the trademarks of Stones greatest fiction: the American embroiled in Third World corruption the diplomats and covert operatives the idealists and opportunists. Yet here the authors sights are set inward to a place where politics is superfluous experience unreliable. Never before has Stone probed so powerfully the psychological depths of one mans mind. What he finds there defies expectations.