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OverviewHell's Kitchen, 1953 Brendan O'Toole is on a downward slide. When his wife dies in a freak car accident, he quits his job and hits the bottle hard. Half tanked in the ring, he allows himself to be knocked out, ending his boxing career. O'Toole, hits rock bottom. After a night of boozing, he is brutally mugged and left for dead. But O'Toole has friends, even if he can't see it. One of them is Danny Reilly, a barman with a heart of gold. He arranges for O'Toole to join a construction crew set to work on a hotel being built in the Central African jungle nation of Sezanda. It's O'Toole's last shot at redemption. Sezanda, Central Africa, 1954 As things begin to look up for O'Toole, the Sezandan government is overthrown in a military coup. All foreigners are taken prisoner and locked in concentration camps. O'Toole is sent to the worst, HELL CAMP XXI, under the control of a brutal ex-Nazi, Kommandant Krieger. Krieger has a special way of keeping his prisoners under control. In the camp, he has erected a boxing ring. And anyone who steps out of line is forced to face off against his man-mountain, wrecking machine, Crator - a man whose sole purpose is to inflict pain. Fate has destined Brendan O'Toole to don the gloves one more time, in a fight not just for his life, but his very soul. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Bishop , Mel Odom , David James Foster , Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow, UK)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Volume: 13 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.281kg ISBN: 9781482530087ISBN 10: 1482530082 Pages: 204 Publication Date: 05 April 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsEntertaining and sophisticated, crime writing of a high order. ---The Washington Post Author InformationPeter Robinson is an award-winning author whose novels have been named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, a Notable Book by the New York Times, and a Page Turner of the Week by People magazine. Actor and musician James Langton, an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has performed many voice-overs and narrated numerous audiobooks, including the international bestseller The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud by Julia Navarro and The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |