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...