Instead of a Soldiers and Sailors Monument topped by the figure of Victory, a likeness of Abraham Lincoln stands atop a tall obelisk. Winters' new novel, "Underground Airlines."īut Winters makes a significant change to Monument Circle. You may recognize elements of Indianapolis, including the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood and Pogue's Run underground waterway, in Ben H. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost.
Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all-though his true self remains buried, it threatens to surface.
Tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail.īut his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor's salvation.
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 isn't right-with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.Ī 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.
Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred.Ī 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. It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals.
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