I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.

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