night lights
the night inspector a novel
the night inspector follows the extraordinary life of william bartholomew a maimed veteran of the civil war as he returns from the battlefields to new york city bent on reversing his fortunes . it is there he meets jessie a creole prostitute who engages him in an adventure that has its origins in the complexities and despair of the conflict he has left behind . bartholomew befriends someone who can help him a deputy inspector of customs named herman melville who largely forgotten as a writer is condemned to live in the wake of his vanished literary success and in the turmoil of his fractured family . p frederick buschs stunning novel is a gripping portrait of a nation trying to heal from the ravages of war and of one mans attempt to recapture a taste for life .
when william a maimed veteran of the civil war becomes involved with a creole prostitute in 1867 new york city he discovers a underground trade that connects him to a deputy inspector of customs named herman melville .