Brief description:
Fenwick Travers, the delightful rapscallion who always manages to become a hero while running away from trouble, is at it again.
The story begins when Fenwick, just back from the Philippines and happily living a life of ease and dissipation, suffers some gambling losses and gets mixed up in an Army procurement swindle. In need of a change of air, he is off to Panama to plant the seeds of rebellion against Colombia, which is blocking construction of the Panama Canal, the pet project of Penny's presidential sponsor, Teddy Roosevelt. Getting the peaceful Panamanians to rebel without overtly involving the United States is a ticklish business requiring a devious agent provocateur. Who better than our Fenwick?
But fomenting a rebellion is not as easy as it's cracked up to be. Before he knows it, Fenwick is involved with a beautiful widow, makes an enemy of the local strongman, gets captured by Indians, and has to escape through some of the fiercest wilderness in the world. And things go downhill from there.
Now you too can be privy to the “real" story behind the Panama Canal and enjoy a spanking good yarn in the process.
The story begins when Fenwick, just back from the Philippines and happily living a life of ease and dissipation, suffers some gambling losses and gets mixed up in an Army procurement swindle. In need of a change of air, he is off to Panama to plant the seeds of rebellion against Colombia, which is blocking construction of the Panama Canal, the pet project of Penny's presidential sponsor, Teddy Roosevelt. Getting the peaceful Panamanians to rebel without overtly involving the United States is a ticklish business requiring a devious agent provocateur. Who better than our Fenwick?
But fomenting a rebellion is not as easy as it's cracked up to be. Before he knows it, Fenwick is involved with a beautiful widow, makes an enemy of the local strongman, gets captured by Indians, and has to escape through some of the fiercest wilderness in the world. And things go downhill from there.
Now you too can be privy to the “real" story behind the Panama Canal and enjoy a spanking good yarn in the process.
Publication
Presidio Press (1995), Edition: 1st Edition, 336 pages
Series
Collection
Physical description
8.75 inches