Ebook {Epub PDF} Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

 · Ben Winters’ Underground Airlines imagines a modern world where the U.S. Civil War never happened and without that war, slavery remained legal in South. The story follows a young black man named Victor (one of many aliases he uses), a former slave himself who had been given freedom in exchange for a position with the US Marshals capturing and returning escaped slaves to their owners/5.  · In “Underground Airlines,” Ben H. Winters, author of “The Last Policeman,” addresses a similar question, but from a unique narrative vantage www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. This is what Ben H. Winters has done in his novel Underground Airlines. Imagine an America in which slavery still exists. Now imagine a dramatic telling of the story."―James Patterson "Brilliantly written, terrifyingly conceived, Underground Airlines had me from the first page to the last. Many writers might have been content to set a few characters loose in the middle of the kind of powerful premise - /5().

Not in the past, but in the modern, alternate reality of Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters, one of the most compelling novels of Books CulturePlay: Angela Flournoy. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe. APPLE BOOKS REVIEW One of the most startling and powerful novels we've read in a while, Underground Airlines is set in a modern-day America that's very familiar—except that. In Ben H. Winters's chilling new thriller, "Underground Airlines," a bounty hunter named Victor tracks fugitives for the United States Marshals Service. But his mission, like his past, is.

In “Underground Airlines,” Ben H. Winters, author of “The Last Policeman,” addresses a similar question, but from a unique narrative vantage point. Underground Airlines (), a novel by American author Ben Winters, is set in a modern-day alternate-history of the United States where the American Civil War never occurred because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before his inauguration. Therefore, slavery was never abolished and remains legal in four southern states known as The Hard Four. This is what Ben H. Winters has done in his novel Underground Airlines. Imagine an America in which slavery still exists. Now imagine a dramatic telling of the story."―James Patterson "Brilliantly written, terrifyingly conceived, Underground Airlines had me from the first page to the last. Many writers might have been content to set a few characters loose in the middle of the kind of powerful premise - slavery in four states never ended -put to work here, but Winters gives us gripping plot.