Sawnee

Jamaica Series #7

by Jerry Beller

The Jamaican deputy prime minister shocks the nation by savagely murdering the prime minister.

Already devastated by Hurricane Gilbert and ruthless crime in high and low places, the country turns to the first lady, Sawnee Lewis.

The first lady accepts the interim prime minister position, and commits herself to holding the country together and leading it out of its current abyss.

The most popular figure in Jamaica, Sawnee also has a dark past. Which Sawnee will emerge now that Jamaica needs her leadership?

196 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 11, 2015

About the author

Jerry Beller (1957-present) was born in Vernon, Texas, but grew up in Norman, Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and has since lived in Washington DC, Jamaica and Florida, before settling in Atlanta, Georgia. Beller has written novels and screenplays for three decades, and the novels will be released two or three per year for the next decade or longer. Beller writes historical fiction, including the "American Myth series", which covers American History from before the republic, up to the present. Additionally, Beller writes general fiction, political thrillers, romance and mysteries. He also writes extensively about Jamaica, as he once lived there, is married to a Jamaican woman, has two half-Jamaican children and considers it his home away from home. Expect a steady dose of releases by this author over the next decade or two.

Jerry Beller will release five books in 2013, the first which was MADDAM PRESIDENT on Valentine's Day.

MADAM PRESIDENT follows President Kalinda Resbo, the first female and black president, as she runs for reelection, while fulfilling the many duties that come with the most difficult job in the world. With the election as a backdrop, madam weaves through an Iranian Crisis, an investigation into moles and corruption in the FBI, Congress and corporate America. Beller addresses many real events and people who are part of current events for the USA during 2012, while also creating many interesting fictional characters. President Resbo's runs for reelection as an independent, running against congress and the two party system, advocating a different approach to politics, solutions that go outside those the democrats and republicans squabble over.
HEY JOE will be released on April 1. It follows an American who moves to Jamaica to write a book and pursue a great adventure. The story is largely one of a white American attempted to be accepted by the locals as more than just another Joe. He meets a wide variety of interesting Jamaican characters along the way. He falls in love with nature, the culture and the people of Portland Parish in the northeast corner of Jamaica.

Beller will return to the American Myth series in June with the release of ALFRED WELLERS, a historical fiction piece about the first European to settle in North America.
1993, also of the American Myth series, will be released in September. This is a thriller with murder, treason and corporate crimes as the backdrop.
Beller will return to the Jamaica Series in December with the release of NUH JOE, the second part of the Port Antonio segment of the Jamaica series. NUH JOE follows River Adams after he becomes known to the locals in the Portland Parish of Jamaica as Nuh Joe. He continues his great Jamaican adventure, but NUH JOE is more of an adventure romance compared HEY JOE.

Reviews

[Zoe Saadia · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fan of Kingstone trilogy, I read this last book in barely two sitting, so engrossed in the story I became. It picks where the previous book left, with Sawnee facing a difficult choice - to take upon herself the actual reins of the government of her beloved country or to stay in the shadows and try to influence in the way she used to before. Her past haunts her, her desire to see her beloved country rise from poverty and violence make her wish to struggle on. Her closest friends and advisers don't understand how can she even consider of backing out of the prime minister's run, and frankly, as a reader I felt the same. She was such an amazing woman, such deep, sometimes controversial person, such rich character. Did I root for her and wished her well!
Politics, struggle for power, loyalty and friendship, true devotion as opposed to corruption and violence, these and much more are there in this fast-paced, action packed trilogy that made a wonderful read for me, caused me stop and think, to reflect on history and human nature, on how controversial and multi-dimensional we all are.
I highly recommend this entire trilogy and wish there were more books to follow Sawnee's story.