The Last Post

Author : Rhys Ryan Evans
Publisher : Rhys Ryan Evans
ISBN 13 : 1506101690
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The last post written by Rhys Ryan Evans and published by Rhys Ryan Evans. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhys Evans an ex-British soldier who was still classed as absent without leave after many years, Now hiding in a farm in Northern Ireland close to the coast with two good friends and a young girl, The farm was owned by an old man who owed Rhys a big favour for saving his son’s life a while ago on another adventure, The other people hiding at the farm with Rhys was: Duncan and Moose, close palls to Rhys. 1 They all served together in the Special Forces, with multiple operations in hostile environments, The girl was the girlfriend of Duncan who was rescued from the Amazon jungle in Brazil, She was a lot younger than Dunc but was a good girl, They all respected her from what she had been through getting them of the jungle and escaping across Peru to cross the seas and get to Ireland, There should have been another girl, Rhys’s girl, Carmem. There was an accident whilst they were all crossing the Atlantic ocean in the boat they had high jacked from a group of people who were going to double cross them and take the emeralds that Rhys and his pals had found in the Amazon Jungle, 2 The boat had stalled for some reason in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean at night in bad weather, They were being thrown around in very large waves and heavy winds, everyone on board was working hard to sort things out, when there was a scream. Carmem disappeared into the water into the night, There was nothing they could do, They were all lucky to survive that bad night. Rhys was devastated and heart broken, he blamed himself for not making sure Carmem was wearing a life jacket. He hit the bottle for a few days and just stayed in his cabin, It was a long journey to the coast of Ireland, Rhys sorted himself out and came to terms with the loss of his Carmem. 3 Rhys called his old friend called: Dan in Ireland, he used a secure line and arranged to hide the boat in a hidden cove. Rhys told Dan what they had been through, he was the only person he could trust. They would hide on Dan’s farm that was well out of the way from prying eyes. Old Dan was a good friend to Rhys with a long past, Dan was a commander in the IRA long time ago, His son was murdered in Bosnia by a sniper, Dan knew Rhys had saved his son’s life on many occasions when his son was serving in the Irish rangers unit. The old man knew ways to get rid of the emeralds, he had black market connections, Old Dan had dodgy connections that were linked with the IRA, the Irish republican army, He was the IRA, a long time ago.

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Last Post written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-03-27T19:29:18Z with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some time has passed since the end of the Great War and the Armistice Day celebration in A Man Could Stand Up—, and Christopher Tietjens and his partner Valentine Wannop are living together with his brother Mark and Mark’s French wife Marie Léonie in a small cottage in the English countryside. Mark has suffered an illness and is now an invalid, tenderly cared for by Marie Léonie. Christopher has turned to dealing antique English furniture to American buyers, and is away on business for much of the novel. The Tietjens’ ancestral home, Groby, is now inhabited by an American renter, and Sylvia, Christopher’s melodramatic and treacherous wife, lurks in the background, her bag of vengeful tricks not yet depleted. The events of the novel take place in a window of just a few hours, but the stream-of-consciousness style invites the reader deep into the thoughts of each of the major characters in the Parade’s End saga—with the notable exception of Christopher. Mark, paralyzed and mute but aware of his surroundings, is the major narrator, but the narrative dips in and out of the thoughts of Marie Léonie, Valentine, Sylvia, and others. Like the rest of the Parade’s End saga, The Last Post is a complex, dense thematic exploration of the Great War and its generational consequences. Christopher, the “last Tory” and embodiment of the traditional English gentleman, finds himself surviving by literally selling off his country’s physical heritage to the newly-ascendant American empire. Mark, an immensely wealthy English landowner, suddenly finds himself not just impotent physically, but, misled by cruel rumors, feuding emotionally with his brother, with each of them unable to forgive the other. Meanwhile Sylvia, the avatar of the decadence, pettiness, and stupidity of the old guard, devotes her energies to striking a mortal blow against her own kind by tricking the American renter into cutting down Groby Great Tree, the very symbol of the stalwart and ancient Tietjens—and English—spirit. Graham Greene, when editing the Parade’s End saga for the Bodley Head in 1962, famously omitted The Last Post, publishing the saga as a trilogy and not a tetralogy. He considered this concluding volume to be unnecessarily sentimental, tying up loose ends that were better left ambiguously unresolved at the end of A Man Could Stand Up—. But critical opinion has since shifted, and The Last Post now stands proudly as a multifaceted and unashamedly modernist capstone to what some consider to be one of the greatest series in 20th century English letters. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.