Chasing the North Star

What an exciting new legend Robert Morgan has created! And just when we need such a story. Chasing the North Star has the gravity of the old slave narratives and blood-chilling action of a contemporary action thriller. The language reflects Morgan's deep connection to the land and the tradition, and burns with conviction and insight and heart.

In Morgan's hands... details become the stuff of stern, gripping drama.

Robert Morgan should be declared a national treasure.

Morgan writes with an enviable clarity that makes personalities, issues and event come alive on the page.

Robert Morgan's writing is... clear and simple, yet it possesses a luminous poetic quality, a rough beauty hewn from the countyside and from old, forgotten ways.