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In A Dynasty Of Lusting Men And Insatiable Women...there were three women with a single all-consuming passion for Edward Warner...YARICO , the sensual native girl who initiated his innocent flesh into the pleasures of pagan lust. She changed him into a man who let no barrier of race or sin stand between him and his desires...SUSAN, the proud, beautiful Irish girl who laughed when Edward called her whore, wept when he treated her like one, and made a devil's bargain to share his love...ALINE , the voluptuous young Frenchwoman who tempted Edward Warner to rape, lured him into marriage, and trapped him in a hell of passion and perversity....Here, set on a lush Caribbean island, is the surging saga of a man who made his own rules for life and lust, and of the very different women he bent to his iron will.
441 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1974
About the author
Christopher Nicole
225 books58 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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May 12, 2017
A rousing piece of historical drama
This is probably the 5th or 6th book from Nicole I've read; the others being written under another alias. I have to say, loo like those others, this did not disappoint. They contained all the hallmarks of his historical fiction novels: action, intrigue, violence, pride, family drama and of course sex. Like his other works, it starts off as a bit mediocre, lacking in technical quality and yet as the pages turn, that is replaced by a heightened suspense and greater character development and better historical background enough to make this novel rich.
Again, as with his other works, this is parried by the way he writes his female characters and his determination that they always suffer some from of gruesome sexual violence in an effort to give greater historical authenticity. It is probably valid however I would like to think his female characters should be able to drive his plots sometimes without being subjected to such themes. This is a mixed feeling on my part, in that regard, because I thought the two leading female characters Yarico and Aline were one of the better written female characters in his works. And there's Edward who I think may yet be the best written character (even Tom to some extent) in Nicole's works I've read so far.
All in all, I say this work was a triumph, though he could do much better with more substantive writing historical events. As a pure family tale and work of fiction though, it checked off most positive boxes. Maybe, book 2 would take things further?
This is probably the 5th or 6th book from Nicole I've read; the others being written under another alias. I have to say, loo like those others, this did not disappoint. They contained all the hallmarks of his historical fiction novels: action, intrigue, violence, pride, family drama and of course sex. Like his other works, it starts off as a bit mediocre, lacking in technical quality and yet as the pages turn, that is replaced by a heightened suspense and greater character development and better historical background enough to make this novel rich.
Again, as with his other works, this is parried by the way he writes his female characters and his determination that they always suffer some from of gruesome sexual violence in an effort to give greater historical authenticity. It is probably valid however I would like to think his female characters should be able to drive his plots sometimes without being subjected to such themes. This is a mixed feeling on my part, in that regard, because I thought the two leading female characters Yarico and Aline were one of the better written female characters in his works. And there's Edward who I think may yet be the best written character (even Tom to some extent) in Nicole's works I've read so far.
All in all, I say this work was a triumph, though he could do much better with more substantive writing historical events. As a pure family tale and work of fiction though, it checked off most positive boxes. Maybe, book 2 would take things further?
April 16, 2012
This review is biased as the author is my first cousin. Notwithstanding, this is a rollicking historical tale of the Caribbean & it's many unsavory characters. This is his first book in this genre & the others are equally entertaining.
August 23, 2021
The leeward islands
Another great story by this author hence the 5 stars. A battle to get a living on the islands but will the natives be good or bad or will other Europeans cause problems you will have read the book
Another great story by this author hence the 5 stars. A battle to get a living on the islands but will the natives be good or bad or will other Europeans cause problems you will have read the book
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