The Irish Smuggler, Brian B Kelly

Автор: Brian B Kelly
Название: The Irish Smuggler
ISBN: 1596879769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781596879768
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 47120.00 T
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Описание: The Irish Smuggler is an adventure story which pits Padraic Egan and three other IRA volunteers, friends from childhood, against all comers as they smuggle arms into Ireland and global cannabis crops into the United States. Taking on the British Army, Afghan mujahidin, a seafaring hippy commune, Russian and Chechen gangsters, Soviet police and the American DEA, not to mention mother nature, their adventures are twisted and changed as continual opposition and obstruction force them to adapt. The reader will meet Afghan mujahidin as they fight a Soviet Army of monumentally superior force. Spanning a stretch of time from 1975 in Ireland to 1991 in New York, much of the story takes place in the heart of 1990 Afghanistan and across the USSR in its final weeks and days in 1991. Driving Padraic Egans ambition to survive and win outeven in the throes of despairis talented Miss USSR contestant, Irina Vyrubova. In addition to this Russian beauty, several daring young American women bring not only added suspense but touching romance and abundant humor to a sometimes raw tale of men risking everything for homeland or glory or riches. And sometimes, all three. Brian B. Kelly became the first person in Harvards long history to complete the requirements for a BA in English while still a sophomore. After meeting requirements for a second major, he graduated from Harvard with honors in 1967. Brian is the author of TROPIC OF PARADISE and SMARTASS! AN AWAKENING. Currently he is working on Commie Spy! The Life and Times of a Soviet Patriot From Brooklyn, a novel based on the life of his friend Joel Barr, the close friend of Julius Rosenberg. He lives in Brooklyn, New York."

Автор: Putrius Birute
Название: The Last Book Smuggler
ISBN: 099651533X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996515337
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 27590.00 T
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In 1902 Lithuania, a group of rebels armed with books triumphs against the mighty Russian Empire.

Part folktale, part thriller, THE LAST BOOK SMUGGLER tells the story of Ada and her grandfather Viktoras, an old book smuggler tired of his forty-year battle to keep his language alive despite the attempts of the Russian Empire to destroy it. Into their world steps Jonas, a young man in love with Ada and ready to join the underground book smugglers. But there is a traitor in their midst who must stop them or lose everything.

Based on the author's grandfather, who was a book smuggler, the novel deftly captures the politics and dangers of the times while bringing to life an engaging and quirky family, with an element of the supernatural.