Bolo is a champion stickfighter, tall, good-looking, the bravest of all the young men in Bonasse. When, time and time again, he sees his people humiliated by change and American troops, his instincts as a leader come to the fore. The stand he makes, however, takes bizarre and tragic forms.

 

This book is part of a book series called Caribbean Writers .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1986 by Hodder Education .

Earl Lovelace is an acclaimed writer from Trinidad, whose books include The Dragon Can't Dance . In 1997 he won the Caribbean Writer's Prize with his novel Salt .