With the help of a young woman he meets along the way, Victor will return to the Hard Four for answers, in hopes of changing the course of history while saving himself. government want to work together to contain. Now, however, there seems to be a secret that the Hard Four and the U.S. The Hard Four can no longer trade with the rest of America because of their use of PBs but they have found ways around that. Victor is getting to know the right people to lead him to Jackdaw’s location but this case proves unusually complicated. The case file is too vague and Bridge seems to be hiding more than usual.

He’s in search of a PB known as Jackdaw but there’s something different about this case. Our bounty hunter calls himself Victor while he works a job in Indianapolis attempting to infiltrate a local abolitionist group known as the Underground Airlines. I pursued my cases efficiently and effectively, and as long as I did that, my own past remained buried.

Bridge assigned me my cases, but my tactics were up to me. I was ‘other means.’ A man with no name, a quasi-employee of a clandestine branch, moving from city to city, job to job, under the supervision of a voice on a Maryland telephone. The US Marshals Service, therefore, has needed to find other means of pursuing its mission.

“Since 1970, African American law enforcement officers are allowed to claim nonparticipation under the Moore amendment.

A tracker implanted in his body accounts for his location at all times while he travels and he remains in regular phone contact with an agent known as Bridge. In exchange for his freedom, he must capture runaway slaves, known as Persons Bound (PBs). All law enforcement agencies are obliged to assist in these operations when called upon (as, indeed, ‘all good citizens’ are so obliged), but it is the US Marshals Service that is specifically charged with the job.”Ī young black man works as a bounty hunter for the US Marshals Service. “Under the Fugitive Persons Act, those who escape from service are to be captured and returned, anywhere they are found in the United States, slave state or free. In Underground Airlines readers are introduced to an alternate modern day America where slavery continues in four states known as “the Hard Four”: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Carolina (which is not divided as North/South).

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