A Serpent's Tooth
Автор:
Peter O'Hara, 616 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
9781844010493
Untold wealth and a global business empire. An American family, fiercely proud of its Ulster-Scots Presbyterian pedigree and its founder's part in the American Revolution. How could the Mackinnons go wrong? What more could Fiona Mackinnon, the steely head of this family, possibly want in her life? The answer is continued, unchallenged power and influence. And that's why conflict erupts when her feisty, strong-willed, stunning daughter, Katie, defies her mother with a serious relationship that crosses the social and religious divides. Partly set in the sectarian crucible of Ulster, their battle nearly unravels the Mackinnon dynasty forever. Disobedience, broken promises, blatant sectarian bias, blackmail and dark deeds over land linked back to the Irish Famine - and the hard-bitten world of the super wealthy and the corporate predator - form the potent ingredients of a first-rate novel. Sweeping historical backdrops in Ulster and America from the mid-eighteenth century, a brilliant...