Gary Dorion: 4 books

Master Whittemore quit preaching the moral rightness of slavery to sailors aboard the 'Helena' - an illegal slave ship - to teach children in Charleston, S.C.but Jack rebels against him and defeats him during a trumped-up "trial" master conducts in his schoolhouse.. Later that evening, the...

Book 2 is a high seas adventure that involves the main characters - Jack and Jeremy - in a romantic relationship with two young Jamaican women. Book 1 ends with Schoolmaster Jerome Whittemore - Jack's and Jeremy's abusive, racist teacher - quitting his brief education career after a devastating classroom...

"A rollicking adventure!" Book 3 opens with Jack and his companions in control of the slave ship, the Helena, renamed The Midnight Raider, having tricked the pirates and slave traders that were chasing them after they stole the ship and kidnapped the captain. Jack has ordered Helena's captain...

The idealistic Anna tells her Warsaw University medical school friends during the 1939 German invasion they should meet the German soldiers with Tolstoyan passive resistance, not violence. All were drinking beer in the cafe, except Anna who had classes. “Yes, Comrade Anna. If a German fascist comes...