The War of Knives: A Matty Graves Novel (The Matty Graves Novels)

When Matty Graves, acting lieutenant in the newly formed U.S. Navy, agrees to become a spy in the French colony of Saint-Dmingue, he plunges headlong into a brutal world of betrayal and double-cross beyond anything hes ever known. At first the bloody civil war between former slaves and their mixed-race overseers simply offers a way to test himself and a means to purge his guilt over the death of his former captain. But soon Matty is drawn into the heart of the conflict when he meets the flamboyant Juge and the mysterious Grandfather Chatterboxand faces an interrogation by the brutal colonel known as The Whip. White supremacists, cutthroat patriots and desperate rebels vie for control in the Colonial worlds richest island. No one is what he seems, and Matty must sort out the twisted lies from the cold, hard truthand keep himself alive long enough to learn from his mistakes. Book 2 of the series focuses on Matty's experiences ashore as a spy in the French colony of Saint Domingue (Haiti) where bloody civil war rages. Has the same rich period details and irony of No Quarter, with fascinating historical characters and plenty of action. Commodore Gaswell instructs Matty Graves, acting-lieutenant aboard the Rattle Snake in 1800, to travel to the Jacmel in Sainte-Domingue to gather information about a plot to raise a slave rebellion in the Southern United States