Birth Of A Nation: A Novel

Eddie Bosham (aka Charlie Boylan) is in prison on a murder charge. But he''s not worried. He''s innocent, and, anyway, he has hidden proof of a ghastly scandal that could bring down the monarchy.

Taking up his memoirs from where we left him, marooned on the Galapágos Islands, we find Eddie offering a young Charles Darwin an explanation of why the finches on the islands vary. In Texas, staunchly loy...