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1913. The Sundance Kid is in prison under an alias when he is supposed to have been killed in Bolivia. His wife, Etta Place, has gone ahead to New York City, and they write weekly. Until her letters stop coming. When he gets out, he has to go to New York to find out if she's dead or alive.

A fascinating and gripping novel about the Civil War. The slave, Cassius Howard, is a great fictional character, and his story is part mystery, part love story, and a harrowing portrait of slavery that reads with the immense power of the slave narratives. - PAT CONROY

Fuller works hard to give us a mid-19th-century world that feels authentic, from small details...to the larger sprawl of the plantation...Captivating. - The New York Times Book Review

The plot unfolds at a brisk pace, and Fuller does an especially good job with the battle scenes...Cassius, who has never drawn a single breath as a free man, is a compelling character from the start. Sweetsmoke is a well-imagined and researched novel of survival and courage. - Altlanta Journal-Constitution

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SWEETSMOKE

In 1862 during the Civil War, Cassius, a slave on a tobacco plantation, hunts for the killer of the woman who taught him to read

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A Chicago native, David Fuller lives in Southern California with his wife, an executive at Searchlight Pictures. Their twin sons are adults, already. A recovering screenwriter, Fuller grew up in Chicago, Vienna, Austria, and Barcelona, Spain. He attended RISD for a year and graduated from Brown. With writing partner Rick Natkin, numerous movies were sold and some were made, and some even have their real names on them. His published novels are SWEETSMOKE and SUNDANCE.