It was the Caribbean high season (which runs from December to April), but even so the prices offered by travel agencies and airline tour companies for three-night Jamaican holidays started as low as $500 a person, based on double occupancy.

Taking his title from the phrase by W. E. B. DuBois about the leadership and missionary responsibility of exceptional blacks, Mr. Wesley is depicting upscale Howard University graduates - at first seen on a Jamaican holiday - unconcerned with the black underclass and disdainful of social change.

The "peace and silence and cut-offness" and the "gorgeous vacuum of a Jamaican holiday" that Fleming loved is there and waiting.

These include a Jamaican holiday, a tennis match with musicians, private musical performances, dinners with musicians, and recordings.

A divorced black woman finds romance on a Jamaican holiday.