![]() ![]() It can be pretty satisfying now and again.” Perversely, he takes great pride in it. ![]() ![]() “That’s the problem with doing the devil’s work. Having embarked on his cruel career for compelling reasons, he admits being very good at his job. (Having first seen actual marshals in the 1960s when these men in suits enforced new civil rights laws, I was shocked to imagine them as slave catchers.) Yes, “Underground Airlines” proposes unthinkable things. Now its prime duty is to track and capture escaped slaves, then ship them back into bondage. Winters upends the Marshals Service’s historical mission and good purposes. marshal, which should identify him as a hero. The story seems simple enough: “Victor” - not his real name - introduces himself, an operative in deep cover, a U.S. His magnetic tale draws the reader from chapter to chapter like a compulsive shopper hunting for bargains in a strip mall. Runaways don’t fly in a single airplane here, and this hints at the author’s gift for the unexpected and his aversion to predictability. The underground railroad of yore survives only in the novel’s title as, curiously, this network remains a mismatched fleet of land vehicles manned by poorly organized abolitionists. ![]()
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