A novel of adventure set against a backdrop of revolution and smuggling. Port Tropique is told in a unique, almost surrealistic style tiat is vivid, sharp, witty, sad and sometimes violent. Franz Hall, one of the most complex characters of modern fiction, finds himself caught between reality and fantasy in a tropical nightmare world of swaying palms and murder. Gifford's novel is loosely conceived in the vein of Conrad's Nostromo and Hemingway's To Have and Have Not. An unforgetable story by an accomplished and skillful writer.
