Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Set between 1951 and 1954 on a banana plantation in Tiquisate, Guatemala, meet Connor Caine--disavowed New Orleans blue-blood turned renegade photojournalist--as he navigates Cold War politics, the 'Red Scare', and a CIA-led coup d'etat ending the Guatemalan 'Ten Years of Spring' in 1954. Along the way young Connor discovers himself and love in the arms of the dynamically capable Honduran journalist, Abigail Catalina Hernandez Cortez. Can their love survive a father's relentless pursuit of power and control or the bombings and midnight attacks of the Yanquis? This book, Ten Years of Spring, deals with the history, politics, and power of a little known company that changed the world, the United Fruit Company. It delves into the relationship between this powerful multi-national corporation and its powerful allies within the CIA and US government. Ten Years of Spring details the second instigated coup d'etat of a foreign government, Operation PBSuccess ( the first being the Shah of Iran). This, however, would not be the last. Since the 1950s at least eighty coups have been used to destabilize and topple nations where vast natural and cultural resources reside. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in New Orleans, Romer Shaw is a historical fiction writer currently living in Northwest Montana. Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively throughout Latin America, his work primarily focuses on the relationship between the United States and Latin America and the effect American Imperialism has had on those countries. He is currently working on the follow up to Ten Years of Spring, called Divine Carrion. For more information, please visit: www.romershaw.com www.1805publishing.com