The Footsteps of My Father - Softcover

Wolfe, Peter Farrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096863124X ISBN 13: 9780968631249

Publisher: Three Wolves Press, 2013

Synopsis

Who is James O’Sullivan? Nobody really knows. For over two decades he has hidden his past, including that terrible afternoon in Shanghai when at the age of seven he was ripped from his mother’s arms and kidnapped. In urgent pursuit of her son and his kidnapper, James’ overwrought mother darted into the street and onto the track of an oncoming streetcar. She died instantly. Kept secret too is the battle when as a British soldier fighting in a hot and humid Burmese jungle during WW2 he was gravely injured and lay dying on the jungle floor only to be rescued and taken to cave dwelling Ra Arun, a man local villagers believed to be a great and powerful mystic. But there is something else. An event so painful ... a choice so terrible he’s kept the memory well shackled deep within the dungeon of his mind where it remains to this day.Understandably James is an enigma to his family, including his youngest son, Sam. Living a buttoned-down life as a professor of linguistics at the local university, a life ordered by standards and expectations, has helped James to manage his buried shame and guilt. But change comes when Teapan, a loyal and dedicated old family friend from James’ distant past, fulfills an oath and travels far from his home in India just to deliver letters written two decades ago to James in Canada. These letters offer James a route back to the truth and an opportunity, with the help of seafaring John Henry, to find redemption and with it -- the courage to share the last and most troubling of all his shocking secrets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Three Wolves Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 096863124X
• ISBN 13: 9780968631249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192