THE WARRIOR'S TACKY

In the spring of 1760, the richest sugar island in the British Empire catches fire. In the parish of St. Mary, a Coromantee warrior named Tacky gathers twenty-six men and women in an abandoned mill house and makes a blood oath. By dawn, two plantations are in rebel hands. By the next day, the garrison at Fort Haldane has fallen and forty muskets are in the hands of the enslaved. What follows is the largest coordinated rising Jamaica has ever seen. As Tacky's fighters push into the hills, the colonial authorities call in the Maroons — free Black communities bound by treaty to hunt the rebels down. Among the trackers is a man named Davy, forced to choose between the freedom of his own people and the men who look like him. At the centre of the storm stands Tacky himself: a former Gold Coast leader carrying the private guilt of having once sold captives into the same ships that later carried him into slavery. Beside him is Marie, a woman who moves between the Great House and the rebel camp, gathering intelligence and refusing to be left behind. From the burning cane fields of St. Mary to the limestone caves of Rocky Valley, from the western rising of Apongo to the Kingston conspiracy of Cubah, this is the story of men and women who, for one terrible season, acted as if the world might still be remade. A high-intensity historical thriller of courage, betrayal, and the brutal price of freedom.