Drum

Greenwich Connecticut: Fawcett Publications, Inc. - A Crest Reprint, 1962. Second Crest Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Good. 512 Pages. A November 1963 Second Crest Printing of the 1962 copyright. Contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition. Tight square book with white pages and faded red page edges and covers that show wear. There is a tear to the back cover that has a tape repair. The world of Drum is a world of brutality, lust and miscegenation, where chained Negroes are sold like cattle, where prize specimens, male and female, are chosen to work in exotic bordellos and on slave-breeding plantations, where masters, drunk with the power of life and death, force their slaves to entertain them with unspeakable acts. For the millions of readers who found Mandingo a memorable reading experience, this brilliant new shocker by Kyle Onstott is equally unforgettable. Tamboura: born a prince in the jungles of Africa and sold into slavery; his beauty and nobility draw him into a forbidden alliance with blonde AIix, his owner's mistress. Alix: a French countess, driven to become the most celebrated madam in New Orleans. Don Cesar: an egocentric patrician whose wealth is the weapon he uses to turn whims into law. Drum: son of Tamboura and Alix, who becomes the star performer in the melees given in his mother's brothel, and the most invincible prize-fighter in the South. Hammond Maxwell: hates white women and black men, and owns the great slavebreeding plantation, Falconhurst, presided over by an elegant, enigmatic woman he acquires in a strange transaction. Drumson: sold by his grandmother to sire slaves at Falconhurst, where the evils from the past and the present explode in a thunderous slave uprising. With savage power and unflinching detail, this story sweeps away the old myths of the benevolent master, the fragile Southern Belle and the humble, happy slave.