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Source: Flowers, A.R. De Mojo Blues: De Quest of HighJohn de Conqueror. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1985. 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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