O'hara's Choice - Softcover

Uris, Leon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060568755 ISBN 13: 9780060568757

Publisher: Avon Books, 2005

Synopsis

In the years following America's terrible Civil War, the fate of the U.S. Marine Corps rests in the capable hands of Zachary O'Hara. A first-generation Irish-American and son of a legendary war hero, O'Hara is the one man who can prevent the dissolution of his father's beloved "Wart-Hogs," thereby ensuring his own future as a valuable member of this proud and vital branch of his nation's armed forces.

But a dark secret weighs heavily on this tormented, dedicated warrior. And the greatest obstacle to his mission is one he never anticipated: Amanda Blanton Kerr, the passionate, obstinate daughter of the ruthless industrialist who's the Corps' fiercest adversary. A beautiful heiress on a mission of her own, her destiny will intertwine with O'Hara's in the tumultuous decades to follow, forcing him to confront the devastating choice no soldier should ever have to make: between his duty and his desire; between his country and his heart.

About this title

Review:

"Bloody battles well done, much excellent period writing ..."--Kirkus Reviews

"A brilliant storyteller."--Irish Voice

"A spellbinding storyteller."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A master at weaving historical fact and fiction."--USA Today

"[Uris pulls] all his characters together like a master puppeteer."--Chicago Tribune

"Uris is to the twentieth century what Charles Dickens was to the nineteenth."--Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers

About the Author:

Internationally acclaimed novelist Leon Uris ran away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the Marine Corps, and he served at Guadalcanal and Tarawa. His first novel, Battle Cry, was based on his own experiences in the Marines, which he revisited in his final novel, O'Hara's Choice. His other novels include the bestsellers Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QB VII, and Topaz, among others. Leon Uris passed away in June 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060568755
• ISBN 13: 9780060568757
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 472