For Those in Peril on the Sea

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For Those in Peril on the Sea

Max Blue

For Those In Peril On The Sea is a roman a clef set in the mid-twentieth century time frame of 1939 to 1955. Booker T. McCan is the primary protagonist, mentored by 100-year-old Count Nyame, and Flapper Jackson, his former high school math teacher and more recently shore fire control officer on the cruiser Indianapolis. When World War II breaks out, sixteen-year-old Booker T. joins the Navy, determined to avenge the death of his brother killed in action in the Pacific. Booker T. survives the war with three Purple Hearts then returns as an officer to serve in the Korean War. The second half of the book describes the efforts of Count and Flapper to establish a School For Presidents at Tuskegee Institute in the face of violent Ku Klux Klan resistance. In the end Booker T. marries an Okinawan bar girl and takes her to Africa to begin a new life.