Showing results for "Liam Robert Mullen" in Literature & Fiction

There is a deep, rich vein of spirituality running through The Scribe, a novel that resurrects the life of Luke the Evangelist. After the crucifixion of Jesus, in its immediate aftermath, a young widower and member of the Sanhedrin becomes disillusioned with the high priests and begins to adopt a Christian way of thinking. Forced to leave Jerusalem, he finds himself in a time that heralded the birth of the gospels.

Described by one reviewer as "bloody accurate", The Nationalists is an Irish story set against the bloody backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising, the War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War. From the author of The Scribe, The Soaring Spirit, Kolbe, and Land of Our Father comes a sweeping new novel that spans the turbulent years in Irish history - 1916 to 1923. It tells the story of a doomed love affair between a revolutionary journalist and a headstrong Kerry-born Cumann na mBan girl.

A killer is loose aboard a Virginia class submarine, and it's a race against time for Captain Russell Grant to find him. With the USS Obama on a war footing, Captain Russell Grant takes extraordinary measures to pin down the murderer before morale plummets aboard and his mission is scuppered beyond repair. He promotes a female member of the crew to chief warrant officer, and she's soon joined in her investigation by two federal agents specially flown out to examine the circumstances.

In the wake of the Stalker and Sampson inquiries and the Good Friday Agreement, a new threat emerges from the heartland of Belfast to threaten the peace process. Renegades opposed to the process form a splinter group designed to wreck the peace process. The British send in an expendable chief superintendent to investigate the group, and his high ideals are shattered by a betrayal from the very top of the establishment.

The hunt for a cop killer in New York throws up all the horrors of the Vietnam War. An NYPD procedural introducing Detective Michael Casoni.

With the USS Obama again on a war footing, NCIS agent Jennifer Hobbs races against time to stave off a nuclear conflagration. Somebody has declared war on the US by targeting its new space program.