The Soldiers Song

""Cat, wanna bet I know why you`re calling? A dead man was found somewhere. Am I right?" " " "Yes and no, Chief." " " "Where am I wrong?" " " "Iss a dead lady, Chief."" Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he`s growing tired of the violence in his job. Then the dead body of a young woman is found in an illegal dump, with half her face shot off. Her identity at first unknown; a tattoo of a sphinx moth on her left shoulder links her with three other girls bearing the same mark, all recent Russian immigrants to Italy. Victims of an underworld sex trade, these girls have been rescued from the Mafia night-club circuit by a Catholic charity organization. The problem is, the other girls can`t help Montalbano with his enquiries. They are all missing. As his investigations progresses, it seems that not everyone wants Montalbano to discover what really lies behind the organisation`s charitable facade. And not only does Montalbano have a case to solve, he has a demanding stomach to feed, and he must save his foundering relationship with Livia . . . NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 92611 68031 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 283 2011-12-10 15:12:39.473 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 0 NULL NULL NULL No NULL 0 978-0-330-50764-6 280 Hard Bound 3 NULL NULL book NULL Andrea Camilleri Mantle Yes 0 NULL\nBooks>Fiction, Books>Fiction>General Fiction, Books 118474 13935 Physical product Ellis Island NULL NULL NULL yes 429 NULL Ellie and John are childhood sweethearts. Marrying young, against their families` wishes, the couple barely survive the poverty of rural Ireland. When John is injured in the War of Independence, Ellie emigrates `for one short year` to earn the money for the operation which will allow him to walk again. Arriving in Jazz Age New York, Ellie is seduced by the energy and promise of America. When the year is up Ellie chooses to stay, returning to Ireland only when her father dies. A trunk full of treasures helps fuel Ellie`s American dream, but as the power of home and blood and old love takes hold she realizes that freedom isn`t the gift of another country, it comes from within. NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 90997 67956 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 283 2011-12-10 15:12:39.473 NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL 0 NULL NULL NULL No NULL 0 978-0-330-50752-3 357 Paper Back 3 NULL NULL book NULL Kate Kerrigan Pan Books Yes 0 NULL\nBooks>Fiction, Books>Fiction>Thrillers / Adventure / Mystery, Books 118475 40979 Physical product The Soldier`s Song NULL NULL NULL yes 495 NULL It`s Dublin, 1914. As Ireland stands on the brink of political crisis, Europe plunges headlong into war. Among the thousands of Irishmen who volunteer to fight for the British Army is Stephen Ryan, a gifted young maths scholar whose working class background has marked him out as a misfit among his wealthy fellow students. Sent to fight in Turkey, he looks forward to the great adventure, unaware of the growing unrest back home in Ireland. His romantic notions of war are soon shattered and he is forced to wonder where his loyalties lie, on his return to a Dublin poised for rebellion in 1916 and a brother fighting for the rebels. Everything has changed utterly, and in a world gone mad his only hope is his growing friendship with the brilliant and enigmatic Lillian Bryce. The Soldier`s Song" is a poignant and deeply moving novel, a tribute to the durability of the human soul.