Michael Strickland has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is The Red Cotton Fields (Newly Edited Edition).
The Crippled Pelican
Summary
The shrimping trawler Crippled Pelican mysteriously burns and sinks off the northeast coast of Florida with women and children aboard. The only survivor was the captain of the vessel whose wife and children were also aboard. The United States government claimed the captain set fire to the vessel and was hopelessly insane at the time of his rescue. The captain was committed to an insane asylum in Florida and never heard from again, until 10 years later, following a tip to a newspaper reporter suggesting the captain wasn't insane as the government had claimed. This is a story of perhaps the biggest international cover-up in world history, and for good reason. The sinking of the Crippled Pelican had brought our planet to the threshold of nuclear war. What a story!
©2004 Michael Strickland (P)2019 Michael Strickland
The Red Cotton Fields (Newly Edited Edition)
Summary
The Red Cotton Fields is a story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer's family, and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War. Listeners will experience the demise of a southern plantation and follow two of the plantation's previous occupants (Bart Royal, the white overseer's son, and Reiner Washington, an escaped slave as they rise to become two of the richest men in the world). Also, The Red Cotton Fields is a classic love story between the plantation owner's daughter, Holly Ballaster, and the overseer's son, Bart Royal. The Red Cotton Fields is destined to become a classic. Listen to it and you will understand why. Book two Fields of Gold and Sorrow was published in the spring of 2015.
©2003 Michael Strickland (P)2019 Michael Strickland