Book Details
Title: Father and Son - A Novel
Author: Peter Maas
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 1989
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 316
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-671-63172-1
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust jacket is of good condition with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to some edges. Minimal creasing and scuffing.
Hardcover beneath is very well preserved. Minimal crushing to ends of spine. Embossing of title is intact.
Binding is firm and intact.
Inside:
Pages are in good condition apart from discolouration/yellowing as pictured.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Peter Maas, the author of such major nonfiction best-sellers as "Serpico", "The Valachi Papers", "King of the Gypsies", and most recently "Manhunt", is also a distinguished novelist. His highly acclaimed "Made in America" was praised by Time magazine as "brutal, funny a comedy of terrors."
Now, in his new novel, Father and Son, Maas has written his powerful and moving work to date. His hero is Michael McGuire, a successful New York executive, a widower who has found in his only sone, Jamie, all the reason he needs to go on living and working.
McGuire scarcely ever thinks of himself as "Irish"; he has no attachment to his ancestral homeland and little interest in what is happening "over there". But when Jamie is drawn, by a romantic impulse, into an IRA gun-running plot, McGuire is propelled into the tangled, violent, harsh reality of a war that involves both IRA sympathizers and foes in the United States government, the British secret service, and the highest level of the IRA Leadership: a war in which he learns there is no such thing as an innocent bystander or the rules of the Geneva Convention, a war that will shatter the lives of father and son....
No one before has penetrated so deeply into the terrible world of apparently never-ending violence that Northern Ireland has become. With a narrative skill, gift for detail and talent for sustained suspense to rival those of John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth, Peter Maas expertly weaves a complicated, totally satisfying story, ranging from the offices of MI5 in London to the inner councils of the IRA and to the network of Irish-American supporters whose money and cooperation help make the struggle possible, never once letting the reader forget that in the middle of all the plotting, counterplotting, and killing, one father is searching for the truth about his son".
Book Details
Title: Father and Son - A Novel
Author: Peter Maas
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 1989
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 316
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-671-63172-1
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust jacket is of good condition with minor shelf wear (rubbing) to some edges. Minimal creasing and scuffing.
Hardcover beneath is very well preserved. Minimal crushing to ends of spine. Embossing of title is intact.
Binding is firm and intact.
Inside:
Pages are in good condition apart from discolouration/yellowing as pictured.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"Peter Maas, the author of such major nonfiction best-sellers as "Serpico", "The Valachi Papers", "King of the Gypsies", and most recently "Manhunt", is also a distinguished novelist. His highly acclaimed "Made in America" was praised by Time magazine as "brutal, funny a comedy of terrors."
Now, in his new novel, Father and Son, Maas has written his powerful and moving work to date. His hero is Michael McGuire, a successful New York executive, a widower who has found in his only sone, Jamie, all the reason he needs to go on living and working.
McGuire scarcely ever thinks of himself as "Irish"; he has no attachment to his ancestral homeland and little interest in what is happening "over there". But when Jamie is drawn, by a romantic impulse, into an IRA gun-running plot, McGuire is propelled into the tangled, violent, harsh reality of a war that involves both IRA sympathizers and foes in the United States government, the British secret service, and the highest level of the IRA Leadership: a war in which he learns there is no such thing as an innocent bystander or the rules of the Geneva Convention, a war that will shatter the lives of father and son....
No one before has penetrated so deeply into the terrible world of apparently never-ending violence that Northern Ireland has become. With a narrative skill, gift for detail and talent for sustained suspense to rival those of John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth, Peter Maas expertly weaves a complicated, totally satisfying story, ranging from the offices of MI5 in London to the inner councils of the IRA and to the network of Irish-American supporters whose money and cooperation help make the struggle possible, never once letting the reader forget that in the middle of all the plotting, counterplotting, and killing, one father is searching for the truth about his son".
