Flowers, A.R. De Mojo Blues: De Quest of HighJohn de Conqueror. New York, NY:
Ballantine Books, 1985.
The following is from the back cover of De Mojo Blues: De Quest of HighJohn de Conqueror:
Three bloods, black soldiers, return from the Vietnam War and adjust to life without the
Army. Tucept Highjohn, back in Memphis, finds a secluded house on stilts in the woods
where he studies the hoodoo path. He first heard the call in the jungles of Vietnam
where Jethro, a brother who always watched his back, gave Tucept a set of mystical bones
on the night before he walked into an ambush and died in a golden bamboo garden.
Back home, Tucept apprentices himself to Spijoko, a Beale Street Blues oldman, a hoodoo
man, who helps him become Highjohn De Conquerer, a Shaman of the Tribe, a Stormbringer,
a Mythmaker, and a Healer.
In this remarkable first novel, told in a multitude of voices, Tucept claims his own
soul, then uses the power that grants him to pour healing mojo on the souls of the needy.
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Haskins, Jim. "In Short: DeMojo Blues: De Quest of HighJohn de Conqueror."
New York Times, January 19, 1986. P. BR20.
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Walls, Martin. (May 12, 2004). "Wild Flowers: Writer Arthur Flowers' Latest Novel Mixes
Myth, Music and Mojo." Syracuse New Times. Retrieved January 3, 2006
from the World Wide Web: http://newtimes.rway.com/ 2004/051204/cover.shtml.
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