A God in Ruins

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A God in Ruins Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know... Zusammenfassung A God in Ruins Spanning the decades from World War II to the 2008 presidential campaign, A God in Ruins is the riveting story of Quinn Patrick O'Connell, an honest, principled, and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But Quinn is a man with an explosive secret that can shatter his political amibitions, threaten his life, and tear the country apart--a secret buried for over a half century--that even he does not know...

Product details

• Authors: Uris, Leon Uris
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2000
• EAN: 9780061097935
• ISBN: 978-0-06-109793-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 171 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Historical romance, Technothriller, Thriller / suspense fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Political / legal thriller, United States of America, USA, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Historical crime and mysteries, Relating to religious groups, FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, JEWISH STUDIES: LITERATURE, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Thrillers / Technological, FICTION: Humorous / Dark Humor, Jewish Studies / Literature