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The 13th Apostle
- A Novel of a Dublin Family, Michael Collins, and the Irish Uprising
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The story - both romantic and terrifying - of how a handful of men, armed with nothing more than handguns and guts, forced the greatest nation in the world from their shores.
On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the general post office on O’Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh. Four days later they would all surrender, but they had struck the match that would burn Great Britain out of Ireland for the first time in seven hundred years.
The 13th Apostle is the reimagined story of how Michael Collins, along with his young acolyte Eoin, transformed Ireland from a colony into a nation. Collins’s secret weapon was his intelligence system and his assassination squad, nicknamed “The Twelve Apostles.” On November 21, 1920, the squad - with its thirteenth member, young Eoin - assassinated the entire British Secret Service in Dublin. Twelve months and sixteen days later, Collins signed the Treaty at 10 Downing Street, which brought into being what is, today, the Republic of Ireland.
An epic novel in the tradition of Thomas Flanagan’s The Year of the French and Leon Uris’s Trinity, The 13th Apostle is a story that will capture the imagination and hearts of freedom-loving readers everywhere.
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- william wallace
- 27-06-2023
The amazing Michael Collins taken way too soon
It’s hard to think he is dead over a 100 years , Collins was way ahead of his time
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- Wanda Fenner
- 09-11-2017
Fell in love with Michael Collins all over again!
omg what a journey! I absolutely loved this book. It was so brilliantly written, so utterly believable , so infused with actual happenings that I had to look up various people to see if they were real! I found myself 'seeing 'it all as if I were watching a movie screen or better still walking the streets of Dublin!
I listened for hours on end. I never wanted to put it down. Even if I only had 5 minutes to spare I'd put it on! However, I don't recommend that because it's addictive and extremely hard to put down for any reason!
i only have one criticism. I wish the author had left the sexual innuendo out. I say this not because I don't like sex scenes but they were totaly incongruous and superfluous .
I seriously wish it wasn't over and look forward to reading again and again!
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- Carmel
- 23-11-2018
Excellent
Great commentary, loved it. Highly recommended for those who want an insite into the 'troubles' and how they effected the Irish
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- Anonymous User
- 20-06-2022
The Thirteenth Apostle
The general idea for this book was great and for the most I really enjoyed listening to it. However, the whole thing could have done without Johnny 3 and Diane and their weird sex scenes throughout the novel. It was out of place, awkward and written terribly. I found it to be in bad taste and kind of disrespectful to the baseline, which is Michael Collins. A lot of the historical markers were met with the two of them having sex.
I cringed every time they appear.
If they were taken out it would have been wonderful
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