Bøger af William Brennan

As the American Civil War winds down Bryson Moore, a prominent history professor at Union College in Schenectady, NY, meets with politically connected colleagues and shares his alarm that the competing plans for national reconstruction put forward by President Abraham Lincoln and radicals in Congress are seriously flawed. He suggests an alternative proposal that would partially bridge the difference between the alternatives. The president of Union College seizes on the idea and puts Moore in touch with Secretary of State William Seward, a Union Alumnus, who in turn arranges for Bryson to brief the president on the merits of his proposal vis-à-vis the two competing for national approval. In a pivotal meeting between Lincoln and Moore, the president confronts his very being in an existentialist crisis and realizes he must make a crucial choice among the options, none of which is ideal. Moore presses the president by indicating a failure to choose a new plan could result in decades of racial animus and anticipates many of the possibilities of Jim Crow laws. In this intense environment, an exhausted Lincoln demands time to make his choice, but even as he ponders his options a traitorous cabal is planning his assassination.

Thirty Years after attending College together two men meet by chance and begin to think back to college. They had been in a band together. They decide they should get back together for a one off concert. However although the four band members and old college pals hadnt seen each other for thirty years, they soon find out that their lives have alway been inextricably linked!

Liam O Donnell arrives on his favourite aegean island for the opening of his new hotel. The hotel has been his life dream and features unique rooms dedicated to rock and pop musicians of the past. However the sinister events that begin to unfold after the hotel opens lead to a labyrinth of deceit, ritualistic murder and spirits from beyond the grave

This is a tale of childhood friendship that leads to betrayal and revenge in a fantasy land of time travel

This book is revolutionary and must be read to understand and to work the system described in the title.

Gray Hearts and Greenbacks, is filled with corruption from beginning to end. It grew out of the general societal discontent of our time. Elites of government, religion, finance and almost every other anchoring element of society have come to be seen by ordinary citizens as corrupt and that the game they're in is rigged against them by these outside forces. As a result, many individuals no longer respect the rules and more than a few among them are open to previously forbidden actions. Gray Hearts is a Washington novel with a distinct twist in that it isn't about glamour, intrigue or war but rather a simple case of outrageous white collar fraud against the federal government. The novel was inspired by the true story of a multi-million dollar crime committed against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A criminal gang operating within the Corps exploited a defect in the procurement regulations for their own benefit. They were caught and are imprisoned. Except for the use of the defective regulation, the novel doesn't track the events of the case. The novel is a first person monomyth. In the story, Corps employee Tommy Phelan is sexually entrapped into becoming a member of a gang committing fraud against the government. He comes under the influence of a mentor, a decadent dilettante member of the enterprise, and becomes convinced that he can navigate the dangerous rapids before him, including avoiding prison and thriving as a criminally enriched but now honorable appearing member of society. The book provides insight into the great recession from which we are just now emerging and examines the nature of the American economic and political systems. Above all it provides an opening into the hearts and minds of less than ideal individuals attempting to find their way through today's moral thickets without the benefit of the certainty and authority of earlier periods of history. The book is short, 63,000 words, and proceeds at a rapid pace. As with classic monomyths there is adventure and offbeat humor throughout. While the hero cannot match the heroism or morality of such earlier works as The Odyssey or Huckleberry Finn, he is far more real and there are others like him out there who match his MO.