Underground Airlines - Ben H. Winters
Category: Thriller
Narrator: William DeMeritt
Tags: Thriller, Sci-Fi
It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred., A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. Hes got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called the Hard Four. On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isnt rightwith the case file, with his work, and with the country itself., A mystery to himself, Victor suppresses his memories of his childhood on a plantation, and works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines. Tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes hes hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who wont re
