Redemption - Leon Uris [0]
with love from Daddy
Meet the Men and Women of Redemption
Rory Larkin: Liam’s wild son. Haunted by a dark family secret and the death of his reckless uncle Conor, he hungers for the freedom and bravery he revealed to the world.
Atty Fitzpatrick: Conor’s last love. Born an aristocrat, she had become a member of the illegal brotherhood that will stop at nothing to achieve their aims.
Countess Caroline Weed Hubble: A wealthy beautiful Anglo industrialist who still loves the martyred Conor. She will use her influence wherever she can, even in the most dangerous gambit of the struggle.
Together these three will offer their lives to give Ireland the freedom she deserves.
Contents
Epigraph
Prologue
Part One: Footsteps
1 If the earth were flat, New Zealand would have fallen…
2 Well, Conor’s cable changed the manner of doing…
3 The benevolence of Squire Larkin grew along with his acres.
4 Liam afforded himself a quick glance at their distraught faces…
5 As Liam went up to the hills, so Rory headed…
6 Rory found himself wandering past the docks and along the…
7 Liam unglued his eyes to an unlikely tattoo of sun…
8 Rory awakened to instant remembrance. As he connected the threads…
Part Two: The Visit
9 The door on the tenant’s cottage had been posted with…
10 “The dray is all loaded, Mr. Lambe,” Conor said.
11 I recall my introduction to Ireland with utter clarity. I…
12 A lesser girl than Atty would have taken Jack Murphy’s…
13 Lord Randolph Churchill had come. The Long Hall of Hubble…
14 Lady Atty Brooke Royce-Moore, the Baroness of Lough Clara, burst…
15 On the third day of this fine month in 1873…
16 Dublin was a he-man’s world, new pubs…
17 As there were legendary people in Derry and Donegal and…
18 The Londonderry Guildhall, a Neo-Gothic frosted cake of a…
19 Conor Larkin had gained the fine measure of success that…
20 “To hell!” Caroline cried, crumpling Andrew Ingram’…
21 Hands on her hips, Caroline stood before the great screen…
22 Tomas Larkin accepted the fates, one after the other.
23 The referee’s whistle sounded the end of the…
24 The restoration now took an entirely different orientation. It was…
25 Strange, high-strung days and restless nights followed the completion…
26 In full pregnancy Atty Fitzpatrick was as close to depicting…
27 When Conor Larkin first came down to Deny from his…
28 What force, what combination offerees, could generate enough power to…
29 Conor Larkin slid shut the door of the wheelhouse behind…
30 One night Conor announced to Liam and Millie that he…
Part Three: Dweller on the Threshold
31 Ah Rorylad,…
32 If Atty was doing a play, the Wednesday matinee left…
33 Ballyutogue Station…
34 By the time I renounced the Conservative Party I had…
35 Rory O’Rory!…
36 The gunrunning scheme moved along flawlessly, recording trip after trip…
37 For the greatest occasion of her life Brigid Larkin was…
38 The mighty chapel of St. Patrick’s in Maynooth…
39 The big night had come and gone for Seamus O…
40 Rat-a-tat-tat-tattat-tattat!…
41 The gunrunning scheme plodded on, a few hundred rifles at…
42 Atty recognized Shelley MacLeod the instant she stepped from the…
43 “Free Conor Larkin! Free Conor Larkin!”…
44 The house descended into a sadness, yet with a feeling…
45 Jeremy was always called to the opulent manor library to…
46 Frederick Weed was at his draftsman’s table on…
47 The arrangement Maxwell Swan had proposed to Molly O’…
Interlude: The Missing Years
What was plain to see was plain to see; namely…
Dunleer, the landed estate of the Baron Louis de Lacy…
’Twas a beautiful spring day in County Galway. In…
Part Four: That Wild Colonial Boy
48 Rory Larkin had confused himself grandly. When one contemplates the…
49 Caroline’s departure from Hubble Manor had been preceded…
50 I have reached the first major crisis of my career…
51 Predictions of Sir Frederick Weed’s early demise failed…
52 Caroline’s London office desk was neither slapdash with…
53 Wally Ferguson halted his fist in midair, gulped