Given To Paradise

By Liam McSean

Given to Paradise is an 84,000 word novel about a young man searching for his way, convoluted by his father's life and death, who was entangled in a civil war, in a country not too far, yet light years away. It was impactful to say the least, in many ways. Except for the saving grace of one occultic stray, the mystery surrounding this man almost destroyed his oldest son. Lt Jack Wilkins was good at his profession; precise, accurate and honorable. He spent most his life ignoring signs of a higher power but through one stray feline, we all hope he saw it. His life was his canvas, an artist's dream, full of abstractions and surrealism, and a huge dose of realism. Jack's life and death were veiled in secrecy. It wasn't always that way. It only became apparent at his funeral when his mother asked me one question. "Do you think he was in the CIA?" From that day on, his life became my quest. Jack had a restless spirit at a young age and no time for God; he used to tell stories about this crazy cat at the cathedral, but that was about it, as far as church was concerned. He was the calmest guy I had ever met. He was a chain smoker and a Scotch drinker and he had a heart of gold. And he was a spy. Jack is recruited for months by the Colonel for one more mission, twenty years after his last. Does he stay and risk everything or does he go, and risk everything? He decides to nestle covertly, into a povertous region of Central America they call the Banana Republic. He is assigned a task to save a small war-torn country. Jack is charged with organizing a not so surreptitious assault on a nation he really has no business being in, Nicaragua. What he found was an amazing culture with battle lines drawn and a people full of life, devout in their beliefs, genuine to the core, including the enemy. In the end, he recognizes that love and faith and war aren't that much different, just as his oldest son did.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1731110316
• ISBN13: 9781731110312
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.0"