Redemption

Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimedauthor of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom inRedemption. A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world on the brink of the First World War,Redemption weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters that form the heart and soul of three extraordinary Irish families.hey love freedom more than life,and they will fight to the death to win it.

From the magnificence of New Zealand's green mountains, to the bloody beaches and cliffs of Gallipoli, to the streets of Dublin and the shipyards of Belfast,Redemptionfollows three Irish Patriots on their odysseys of freedom and passion- in a monumental tale of the men and women who loved, fought, and died for the chance to be free.

Master storyteller Leon Uris contines the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption. A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world on the brink of the first World War, this book weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters that form the heart and soul of three extraordianry Irish families. They love freedom more than life, and they will fight to the death to win it.

Master storyteller Leon Uris, internationally acclaimedauthor of such bestsellers as Exodus, Topaz, QB VII,Trinity, the Haj and Mitla Pass,continues the epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom inRedemption. A dramatic saga set against the backdrop of growing unrest in Ireland and a world on the brink of the First World War,Redemption weaves together a cast of unforgettable characters that form the heart and soul of three extraordinary Irish families.hey love freedom more than life,and they will fight to the death to win it.

From the magnificence of New Zealand's green mountains, to the bloody beaches and cliffs of Gallipoli, to the streets of Dublin and the shipyards of Belfast,Redemptionfollows three Irish Patriots on their odysseys of freedom and passion- in a monumental tale of the men and women who loved, fought, and died for the chance to be free.

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After seven quiet years, Uris, one of the most reliably best-selling novelists of the past half-century, returns with more about the Larkins and Hubbles of his megahit, "Trinity" (1977). This time Uris gives us Liam Larkin immigrating in 1895 to New Zealand, rutting his way into a landed family, and thriving. Liam's elder son, Rory, grows up with the wish to emulate his uncle Conor, an Irish rebel of the first water, especially when that eminence goes down in a blaze of Fenian glory just as World War I erupts. At this point, the narrative backtracks and takes up Conor's full story, which eventually involves him romantically with the wife of the novel's leading Hubble. More characters are introduced, and more romance--of the hardy-har-har hard-ridin', -drinkin', and -brawlin' all-guy variety as well as the hard-breathin' man-woman type. In a major miscalculation, Uris periodically inserts snippets from the ostensible "Secret Files of Winston Churchill" that, while they add historical detail, sound like nothing the great statesman ever could have written. The story doesn't advance chronologically beyond the birth of the Irish Free State, and that event is entirely off the novel's stage. More than in his other historical romances, the accent here is upon the latter word in the term. Don't be surprised if a red-haired, green-eyed Fabio clone shows up on the dust jacket.

Internationally acclaimed novelist Leon Uris ran away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the Marine Corps, and he served at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. His first novel, Battle Cry, was based on his own experiences in the Marines, which he revisited in his final novel, O'Hara's Choice. His other novels include the bestsellers Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QB VII, and Topaz, among others. Leon Uris passed away in June 2003.