Plough The Sea

The Caribbean Bahamas - Here in an area of deceptive beauty, men have long contested for power and wealth and for the bodies and minds of those they subjugated. For centuries pirates, slavers and adventurers have ravaged it. Revolution has stained the white beaches crimson. It has been pillaged by black and white alike and torn by the conflict of color and prejudice, greed and ambition. As timely as tomorrow's headlines, as charged with violence and danger as the hurricanes which are brewed there, PLOUGH THE SEA is the story of Jorge Ojeda and Ferris Dessaline; the one created in the image of the pirates who sailed the Spanish Main; the other a girl reared in a tradition in which wealth, position and social prejudices are not only taken for granted but from an indisputable way of life. To San Rafael he brought a mystical conviction of his destiny and the belief that nothing he could do would swerve his life from its predestined course, and there he was surrounded by those who spelled his hope—or his down fall: Ferris and her inflexibly patrician grandmother, Madame Cleo; Juan de Cespedes who followed Jorge Ojeda without question as a man might follow his star; the Negro, Massau, an untutored artist whose hands fashioned a girls figure in jade and with it a damming truth; the dictators, San Martin, Torralba and Morillo, who had fled their own countries with their blond mistresses and millions to accept sanctuary on San Rafael at a price greater than they were willing to pay. The revolution which involves them all and threatens the security of the entire Caribbean flames is born from the mind of Jorge Ojeda. He learned what others before him discovered, that from the heights there is no place to go except down. Because of the dark secret which he has carried with him since boyhood he is unwilling to take this path he must walk alone.