<div>A British businessman woos a Caribbean woman&mdash;and her disapproving family&mdash;in this &ldquo;engrossing novel&rdquo; (Insight). Nathaniel Jones, a middle-aged businessman from England, travels to the Caribbean island of Anguilla to spend a fortnight on holiday&mdash;and finds himself captivated by a brilliant and beautiful member of the local community, Sheila Rawlingson. After a secret, intense hundred-day courtship, Nathaniel proposes to Sheila, whose agreement to marry this white man is seen as a betrayal by her family and fellow Anguillans. Recognizing the value Anguillan society places on economic projects, Nathaniel attempts to set up an airline business to gain the support and favor of the Rawlingsons. He sends for his son, Dragon, to travel to Anguilla and cofound Dragon Wings, the nation&rsquo;s first commercial airline. Nathaniel, Dragon, and Sheila turn to her uncle for financial backing. But Sheila&rsquo;s uncle will do his best to foil Nathaniel&rsquo;s best-laid plans at every turn . . . &ldquo;There is something for every reader in this engrossing novel depicting the complexities of inner and outer Caribbean and Latin lives&mdash;from the seemingly placid but often privately turbulent world of a small island such as Anguilla to the overwhelming large urban chaos of Caracas, Venezuela&mdash;and in its observation of the inevitable connection between public and private spheres. On the Way Back delves fearlessly into the mind and spirit of its main characters with authenticity, humor and an understated compassion but does not flinch in observing human flaws and the death of dreams that result when deep-rooted attitudes prevail.&rdquo; &mdash;Insight </div>

On the Way Back

<div>This tale of a little-known revolt in the Caribbean is &ldquo;part literary thriller, part revolutionary study, part epic historical narrative&rdquo;(Joe Meno, author of The Boy Detective Fails). A sympathetic and often humorous account of an obscure episode in the history of the remote island of Anguilla, in the northeast Caribbean, The Night of the Rambler revolves around a haphazard attempt by a dozen or so locals to invade neighboring St. Kitts, in an effort to topple the government of the recently established Associated State of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. Ostensibly, the action maps the fifteen hours that lapse between the moment when the &ldquo;rebels&rdquo; board The Rambler, the thirty-five-foot motorboat that will take them across the strait to St. Kitts, and the break of dawn the following day, when it becomes obvious that the unaccomplished mission will have to be aborted. The novel is at turns highly dramatic and hilarious, all the while bringing deep honesty to the often-unexamined righteousness of revolution. &ldquo;Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman&rsquo;s fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes that echo Marquez. . . . Readers . . . will be rewarded with the little-known tale of how the underdog country demanded its own place in the 20th century.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;This is a book about revolution and the underdog, about a small, isolated island fighting for recognition, opportunity and justice; it is a compelling tale about a curious historical episode, but also a vital look at priorities, perspective and the right to live in dignity, issues that, much like Anguilla&rsquo;s rebellion of 1967, are all too easily forgotten.&rdquo; &mdash;The Island Review &ldquo;This is a fine novel, a surprising novel, perhaps the first true novel I have read about the nature of revolutions. The Night of the Rambler is ambitious, smart, and successful. It raises all sorts of questions about what revolutions want, how revolutions fail, and why revolutions are necessary&mdash;challenging all the while how history remembers them.&rdquo; &mdash;Percival Everett, author of Erasure</div>

Montague Kobbe
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Books By Montague Kobbe (2 Books)

On the Way Back

The Night of the Rambler

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