The Valparaiso Voyage

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by his widowed father, Brendan Brogan finds lie age of eight when his father re-marries. He can nother's son, Cormac, usurps his bedroom, his toys social order of the town. Brendan grows up and into lood, scarred by the humiliations of his childhood.
Years ' "|™ compulsive gambler with his marriage falling apart, i fate - and Cormac's suicide - allows liim to take the ultimate gamble to financially secure his wife and son's future by faking his own death and assuming Cormac's identity. Leaving behind his family and an Ireland overwhelmed by the economic problems ofthe 1980s, Brendan spends the next decade on a journey across Europe, haunted by the turmoil of his past. But the unsolved murder of his father, a retired planning official due to testify before a tribunal investigating political corruption, brings shadowy figures from his cliildhood to the surface like sharks drawn to blood, leaving his wife and child exposed to danger.
Returning like a ghost to a new Ireland -... Tovább

Fülszöveg

by his widowed father, Brendan Brogan finds lie age of eight when his father re-marries. He can nother's son, Cormac, usurps his bedroom, his toys social order of the town. Brendan grows up and into lood, scarred by the humiliations of his childhood.
Years ' "|™ compulsive gambler with his marriage falling apart, i fate - and Cormac's suicide - allows liim to take the ultimate gamble to financially secure his wife and son's future by faking his own death and assuming Cormac's identity. Leaving behind his family and an Ireland overwhelmed by the economic problems ofthe 1980s, Brendan spends the next decade on a journey across Europe, haunted by the turmoil of his past. But the unsolved murder of his father, a retired planning official due to testify before a tribunal investigating political corruption, brings shadowy figures from his cliildhood to the surface like sharks drawn to blood, leaving his wife and child exposed to danger.
Returning like a ghost to a new Ireland - suddenly affluent and yet shaken
by each new revelation about its recent history - he faces a terrible dilemma. Only Brendan knows how deeply embedded his father had been in the corrupt web spun by Barney Clancy, an Irish politician. For the truth
to be uncovered and justice to be done, is he wdlling to reveal his own identity, risk his son's safety and bring the walls of the past crashing down?
A fast, tightly-knit literary thriller from a master storyteller. The Valparaiso Voyage is a skilful examination of a rapidly^hanging Ireland, an exploradon of the relationship between fathers and sons ajid a compelling portrait of a man caught between two worlds, striving to break free. Vissza