Desperadoes by Joseph O’connor
A telephone call shatters the calm of a Dublin summer morning bringing terrible news from war-torn Nicaragua: Johnny Little has been caught up in a mysterious skirmish and killed. Grief-stricken, his estranged parents Frank and Eleanor set out on the arduous journey to bring their wayward son home. It's a quest that will have profound consequences: in this hauntingly beautiful land of poetry, guns and frantic salsa music, nothing is quite what it seems ...
'An astonishing display of assured, emotive, witty writingRead it.' Independent on Sunday 'This is a very entertaining novel. It is also a generously humane one.' Sunday Times 'Ireland's most brilliant storyteller.' Sunday Independent 'Desperadoes is an intelligent thriller that attempts to explore the way in which children always remain a mystery to the people who raise them.' New Statesman
Joseph O'Connor is a trainer, consultant and author of thirteen books. His work has been translated into ten languages. He travels internationally to lecture on NLP and runs his own NLP website. John Seymour is a consultant, trainer, author and founder of JS Associates – the longest-established NLP training organisation in the UK, providing NLP skills training for personal and organisational development. One of Britain's most experienced NLP trainers, Fellow of the North American Association for NLP and serves on the advisory board of the international NLP journal ‘NLP World'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006546979 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006546978 |
| Title | Desperadoes |
| Author | Joseph O'connor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1995-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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