South of Cancer, North of Capricorn

About the Book

Beautiful Charlotte Amalie can take your breath away and it literally does to victims of a racist serial killer and the vigilante who seeks him. The warm blue water of the islands is the facade behind which boils centuries of hate and mistrust among the confluenced people who inhabit the fair shores. Slavery's final hateful act is to not allow the past to be forgotten. It rushes constantly to the reptilian portion of everyman's brain and brings civilization back to its beginnings in the slash of a blade or the flash of an explosion.

Kodi is singled out because his lover is of another race and from that ill-founded beginning there comes enough death and hate to rival equally dark periods of history. When next the reader disembarks from his cruise ship, he/she will see in those staring eyes and dark alleys, scenes one had hoped were forever washed from human experience.

About the Author

DB Martin was born in Akron, Ohio in 1953. The last of 4 children to southern immigrants coming north after WWII for factory work. He attended Coventry HS in the suburb of Portage Lakes, Ohio. A 1971 graduate, he continued his education at the University of Akron. He graduated 1976,1981 with BS,MS. He taught school and coached sports for Coventry HS until the summer of 1981 at which time he moved to a small island off of the coast of South Carolina named Hilton Head. It was at this time his life changed drastically from the blue collar upbringing of a factory town to the strange goings on in the isolated areas of the South. Since that time he has studied Spanish, French, and Italian all over the world. He lived two years in Charlotte Amalie, USVI during the Gulf War and has spent most summers traveling throughout western europe, central america, and the caribbean.