Da's American Family: Boots, Bootleggers and Patriots by Timothy Shannon

By Timothy Shannon

Da’s American family members is the suspenseful 3rd novel within the Da’s Shillelagh trilogy. because the twentieth century dawns the Reddy kinfolk faces a unique set of clients and demanding situations. hard work strife, the ruthless Fingy Connors, damaging paintings, poverty, alcoholism and different curses of the operating type plague the kin. Bishop Quigley, The Pan American Exposition, and religion within the American Dream supply glimpses of a higher existence to return.
Growing up in Buffalo within the period of robber barons and anarchists, Jamie Reddy joins the Marines to flee the catch of poverty on Buffalo’s waterfront. He sees responsibility throughout the Banana Wars within the Caribbean, and is going directly to struggle at Belleau wooden within the nice struggle. Upon his go back from France, he unearths a state pain the post-war pangs of disenchanted veterans within the period of prohibition. Rum working, gang wars and the good melancholy paintings opposed to him and his family members.

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