Chasing the Black Eagle

Historical adventure fiction in the vein of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes, inspired by the extraordinary real life of Hubert Julian Young Arthur Tormes is impelled by the FBI to covertly follow and report on larger-than-life 'Black Eagle of Harlem' Hubert Julian — a pilot, inventor, adventurer, charlatan, and possible threat to America A story of frenemies, with Arthur and Julian both sharing Trinidadian heritage but placed on separate sides of the FBI agent's insidious plan to monitor Julian's activities A sweeping historical setting takes readers from 1920s Harlem Renaissance in New York City to the Italian invasion of Emperor Haile Selassie's Ethiopia in 1935 Author's second novel after 2018's The Higher the Monkey Climbs