{"product_id":"2940012983572","title":"The Cross on the Drum","description":"A strange young man, Barry Clinton.  Unlike most young missionaries, who came to the island to save souls, this one had come with a belligerent skepticism and a driving determination to battle sickness and starvation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had come to the Ile du Vent with a Bible and a few meager medical supplies- ready to make the little Caribbean island a better place in which to live.\u003cbr\u003eThe Cross on the Drum is the story of the strange friendship of Barry Clinton and Catus Laroche - high priest of vodun, the savage, ritualistic religion which no white man had ever dared defy.  It tells of the tormented, embittered passions of the other islanders - white and black - and how they undermined the bond between these two men, changing their mutual respect into brooding, vengeful hatred, and turning the island's drowsy, sunlit tranquility into a feverish, drum-pounding battleground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHugh B. Cave, whose knowledge and deep understanding of life and customs in the West Indies distinguished his earlier works, Haiti: Highroad to Adventure and Drums of Revolt, has written here an explosive, dramatic novel of Christianity and voodoo on a Caribbean island.","brand":"Crossroad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176130199792,"sku":"2940012983572","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012983572_p0.jpg?v=1763574793","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012983572","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}