Caroom's Raid is a rousing tale of a modern man blending duplicity, audacity, and decency to survive in a brutal eighteenth century alternate-history version of an alien Appalachia frontier and lawless Gulf coast. Rex's steamboat, the Mischief, has a contract to deliver the Wapiti's cargo of prized winter-sloe nuts to Port Delta on the Gulf coast, a voyage of 1000 kilometers down the pirate infested Erie River. East from the port, along the Gulf coast is Orleans where Rex's partner, Amy Caroom, an escaped slave, wants to go. She intends to collect a debt owed her by Herr Purnell, her former...