Evangeline

A jury must decide whether a ship’s captain is man or monster: “Buffa [can] keep company with the best writers of legal thrillers.” — Orlando Sentinel Evangeline is the finest ship of her kind, built to sail anywhere in the world. Like the Titanic , she is meant to be unsinkable. But when she runs into a ferocious storm, only fourteen people manage to escape—aboard a single lifeboat. Forty days later, only six survivors are rescued from the sea. One of them, the captain Vincent Marlowe, is charged with murder. But when Marlowe claims it was necessary to kill some to save others, the jury is faced with a dilemma: Is the captain a killer or a hero? Praise for D. W. Buffa “If there’s anybody who can mount a challenge to John Grisham’s mantle . . . Buffa’s the guy to do it.” — Edmonton Journal “There’s nobody... Evangeline, the finest ship of her kind, built to sail anywhere in the world, sinks in a ferocious storm off the coast of Africa. A single lifeboat with fourteen people crowded into it gets away. Forty days later, a thousand miles from South America, six survivors are rescued from the sea. One of them, the captain Vincent Marlowe, is charged with murder. His only defense is that it was necessary to kill some to save the others.