Beyond the Seas

This action-packed saga of an Irish family sweeps the reader from the turmoil of seventeenth-century Ireland to present-day Washington, DC; from the slave plantations of the Carolinas and the Civil War to World War II; from Australia and the South Pacific to the icy North Pacific. Its battle scenes are authentically described by a writer who has been there, including an intimate look at controversial General Douglas MacArthur. The climax turns on the political struggle of a United States Senator, Timothy OaSullivan, to rid the nation of the death penalty. His solution will surprise you. The author, a former Washington correspondent and a Pulitzer Prize winner, writes authoritatively of the legislative combat that ends capital punishment.