Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
James W. Hall
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Charles Elkins
Third Advisor's Name
Lester A. Standiford
Date of Defense
11-5-1996
Abstract
Double Fortune is a novel relating events taking place in Miami, Central America, and The Bahama Bank in October and November, 1983. The main character, Michael Hayden, is a free-lance music producer who has become jaded and impotent. A chance encounter on the Bay with Marisol, a Salvadoran heiress, and Hector, her brother, propels him into a complex plot to expatriate money through U.S. government channels. Willy, a brooding Cuban bodyguard hired to protect and instruct the Salvadorans, emerges as both nemesis and key to the duplicities of the scheme. The final showdown involves the four of them on the water above the Cay Sal Bank, a part of the Bahamas equidistant to their disparate worlds.
Identifier
FI14051103
Recommended Citation
Bentley-Baker, Dan, "Double Fortune" (1996). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1609.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1609
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