It's the year 1900 and a major Hurricane is brewing in the
Gulf of Mexico. Future real life boxing champion Jack Johnson is training for an upcoming fight the promoters have no interest in him winning. The boxing fans in
Galveston, Texas are incensed since an
African American fighter(Johnson) has soundly defeated the local white champion. So they send north to import John McBride, a dirty fighting
racist hired to do one thing: defeat Johnson and restore the championship to a white fighter. All the while the
1900 Galveston Hurricane is moving north towards the Texas coast. The
short story on which this novel is based – which was originally published in the 1997 anthology edited by
Douglas E. Winter called
Revelations – won a 1997
Bram Stoker Award. ==Editions==