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His desire to become a part of their lives again and rebuild a family that has adjusted without him is a challenge he is determined to face. With the help of former shipmates, Ben builds a business on the canal that crosses from the mouth of the Susquehanna River over the Mason and Dixon Line into Pennsylvania. He can no longer ignore crossing the Line, from slave state to free, even at the peril of his rediscovered life. Through it all he is haunted by bloody dreams as he fights to contain the brutal beast he became in China. Pulaski's Canal is a remarkably engaging story about a man torn by love and murderous rage as he struggles to rebuild his life in the little town at the head of the Chesapeake Bay.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50360227791121,"sku":"CIN0692625267G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50414948974865,"sku":"CIN0692625267VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51716878336273,"sku":"CIN0692625267A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0692625267.jpg?v=1750977744"},{"product_id":"blood-on-the-chesapeake-book-robert-f-lackey-9780692688670","title":"Blood On The Chesapeake","description":"Ben and Sonja Pulaski struggle to rekindle their fragile relationship and rebuild their lives along the canal that flows from free state to slave state, in a young country struggling to find the proper course. The Pulaskis are targeted by a violent man Ben thought left for dead, and a conniving banker Sonja humiliated in desperation, who join together in a dark business venture, and devise a plan to destroy the Pulaskis. Ben and Sonja find themselves in the center of a deadly storm fed by greed, slavery, and revenge, releasing the monster held deep within Ben, and pouring blood on the Chesapeake.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361378373905,"sku":"CIN0692688676G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53490151194897,"sku":"NIN9780692688670","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0692688676.jpg?v=1751360144"},{"product_id":"pulaski-s-redemption-book-robert-f-lackey-9780692091487","title":"Pulaski's Redemption","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51109466243345,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51109467193617,"sku":"NIN9780692091487","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0692091483.jpg?v=1750944765"},{"product_id":"raven-s-risk-book-robert-f-lackey-9780692831328","title":"Raven's Risk","description":"Havre de Grace, 1843. 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Once again, the Pulaskis step into a broader world, taking them farther from the simple life on the Canal, and ever forward into the growing maelstrom of a nation straining within itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53450549788945,"sku":"NIN9780692831328","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780692831328.jpg?v=1776897244"},{"product_id":"brazen-deceit-book-robert-f-lackey-9780692063149","title":"Brazen Deceit","description":"1847. Ben and Sonja Pulaski, a husband and wife team, supported by their sons Isaac and Aaron, steal slaves in the deep south and smuggle them north to freedom. Working their barges on the Canal near Havre de Grace, Maryland, the Pulaskis travel between slave state and free state, awakening in them the moral law that outweighs Maryland slavery laws. After gaining the Schooner Raven, their commitment to freedom takes Ben into Washington with a dangerous plan that sends him hiding from the law in Leonardtown, Maryland.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53490118754577,"sku":"NIN9780692063149","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780692063149.jpg?v=1777731215"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-robert-f-lackey.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}