num_pages: 380
description: "Lucy Mannings,born in Discovery, Illinois,comes of age amid the bullets of KentState and the Vietnamslaughter -- angry protests of a nation tearing itself apart. Taught by herfather to see war as nothing more than a waste of life, and watching young widowssobbingly accept their lots, Lucy, unwed at forty, rationalizes that Vietnamtook her 'soulmate' and her chance of marriage gone.In Ireland,Patrick Murray, an IRA sniper since childhood, is ordered to execute aprisoner. It is killing so close to his victim that awakens Patrick to the grimreality behind his actions. He deserts the IRA, illegally enters the UnitedStates, and to escape Chicagoafter a near-miss by an IRA contract hit-man, flees --To Discovery, Illinois."
language: English
title: Gone For A Soldier
titlecomplete: Gone For A Soldier
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Authorhouse