This is a book about Cajuns on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana's marshes and bayous. Armadeous a half Indian half white privateer and his wife Sara Fina Delande captured by pirates at the end of 1850. Their abandoned son Alphe Peltier endured abuse and neglect at a young age and grew up to be a strong willed, hard fighting, straight talking, wielding dealing individual as the result of having to fend for himself. His story spans 86 years and touched the lives of a variety of people. Travel with Cajun Al as Leau Noir, the voodoo prince of the bayous, Magic Jack Callahan the gambler and his woman Fadoe reader of tarot cards, the Cajun Priest, the Cajun Barber, The Banker, Eli secret keeper of stones, Gabriel the slave girl, Uncle Bud, Daniel, Sanchez the underhanded scoundrel, Henry-Henry the peg leg pirate and Miss Mary Irlanda and others come to life.