Man Pilot
The Man Pilot is a rich, colorful saga of plantation life in the steamy\ Louisiana delta where love, sex, lies, and deceit live among the slender\ stalks of sugar cane deep in the Bayou land. The latest installment of\ author James W. Ridout IV’s “Plantation” series chronicles the Pilot\ family, an extended clan of blood kin, in-laws, neighbors, friends, and\ lovers, gay and straight, each with a story to tell—and a secret to hide.\ Cover-ups, deceptions, and duplicity lead to treachery,...
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The Man Pilot is a rich, colorful saga of plantation life in the steamyLouisiana delta where love, sex, lies, and deceit live among the slenderstalks of sugar cane deep in the Bayou land. The latest installment ofauthor James W. Ridout IV s Plantation series chronicles the Pilotfamily, an extended clan of blood kin, in-laws, neighbors, friends, andlovers, gay and straight, each with a story to tell and a secret to hide.Cover-ups, deceptions, and duplicity lead to treachery, blackmail, scandal,and murder as business trickery collides with bedroom intrigue to alter thelives and loves of everyone. You and the others may consider my ideas immoral, but all you have to dois look at yourselves and I don t come out so bad. John Pilot, the aging patriarch of one of the grand families of Louisiana,reigns over one of the largest sugar cane producers in the state. But thefarm and the family that feeds off it is falling apart. Sugarcane priceshave hit rock bottom and it's been five years since the Pilot plantationturned a profit. A mysterious disease is killing the sugar cane the farmdoes manage to produce. Francis Lorraine, his scheming young wife, hopsfrom one politician's bed to the next. Oliver, his secret lover of 40years, has been stricken with a terminal illness. His favorite son-in-lawJulian, a reformed gay man, is on the verge of a breakdown. And it's allhe can do to keep his openly gay nephew Shaun, his heir apparent, fromtaking a shotgun to his own father. This family is filled with controversy and I will not be used as ascapegoat for causing problems. Bernard had lost interest in the whole matter. Julian's latest blood typeno longer ruled out the possibility that Bernard wasn't Julian's father.Julian's father could be the rapist or Bernard. This was enough forBernard. He had the heir of the first born of his first marriage his onlymarriage. He could care less about the details. As soon as Julian would betold these facts, everything would be back to normal. As far as he wasconcerned, the father whom Julian idolized growing up was indeed by hisblood. Why question the inconsistencies? Everything in life could bechallenged. Why sweat it? The Man Pilot is a sprawling saga of southern culture, presenting a uniquetwist on the romantic myths about plantation life. Part mystery, partmorality play, the book's complex storylines will keep you guessing atevery turn.
