THE ULTIMATE PORT IS A PAGE-TURNING MIDNIGHT-OIL BURNING NOVEL YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN, WITH SUSPENSE, MYSTERY, AND DRAMA. THE AUTHOR WILL KEEP YOU MESMERIZED AS YOUR INNERMOST SELF WALKS YOU INTO THE LIVES OF EACH SHADY CHARACTER. THERE STOOD A BEARDED MAN WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS. HE WORE A TATTERED ROBE WITH AN UNMATCHING TIE AROUND HIS WAIST. ON HIS FEET WERE SANDALS OF A MATERIAL NONE WERE FAMILIAR WITH. THE PLEASANT STRANGER WAS TALL AND AS LEAN AS A RACEHORSE. EVERYTHING HAD COME TOGETHER FOR ANA MARIA BY THEN. THE WEIRD MEN COMING AND GOING AT ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT, AND THE MONEY....

Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student.