"Captain in the Sleepers is a taut, erotic novel that slips between past and present, remembrance and reality, as it describes a feverish Caribbean childhood of secrets, disillusionment, and sexual awakening." "For fifty years. Andres Yasin has carried a grudge against J. T. Bunker. Now eighty-three years old and dying of cancer, Bunker wants to tell his side of the story, the story of his affair with Estela, Andres's mother. As a child Andres knew Bunker as the "Captain of the Sleepers" - so called because he transported back to Vieques those who had died on the mainland but wished to be buried at home. But what really happened between Bunker and Estela, and between Estela and her one true love, a leader of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement? And what were the actual circumstances of her mysterious death?"--BOOK JACKET.