A sound like thunder

Brewer's second is also set in Fairhope, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast. This time the year is 1941, and 16-year-old Rove MacNee, son of Dominus MacNee, captain of a 50-foot melon schooner, is worried that his father's animosity toward a local German American might turn deadly. Of course, war is in the air, but the intensity of the captain's hatred seems to transcend even rabid patriotism.