McGann Saga Series (1-6) by Christopher Nicole
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Overview: Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen’s College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
Genre: Fiction » Mystery/Thriller
Old Glory
1769.
Young Harry McGann is forced to flee Ireland for the unknown shores of America. On that voyage he meets Elizabeth Bartlett, who seems as far beyond his reach as the stars which guide him across the Atlantic.
Through the years that follow, Harry finds himself involved in the formation of the American Navy. It is a world of intrigue, violence and untold dangers at sea.
But always the memory of Elizabeth is there … and their paths are destined to cross again and again.
‘Old Glory’ is a tale of blistering naval battles and wild romance on the high seas. It is the first book in The McGann saga
The Sea and the Sand
The Caribbean, 1800.
The spirit of Harry McGann lives on in his son Toby. Protecting Yankee shores from rogue French ships, he’s seen more action in his nineteen years than his father ever saw in a lifetime.
But his destiny is set to diverge from his father’s in more ways than one. A chance meeting with the beautiful Felicity Crown, daughter of British navy-Captain, sets him on a path of reuniting the family with his father’s old foe.
Times have changed, however, and a new threat to American interests stalks the seas. Barbary pirates operating out of Tripoli have cast their net wide over the Mediterranean, disrupting trade, plundering merchant ships and placing men and women into captivity.
When Felicity’s ship is over-run and Felicity herself sold off to harems across North Africa, the war with these pirates becomes deeply personal for Toby. He believes Felicity is alive and he is prepared to cross the sea and the sand to find her.
But Felicity’s cruel masters will not relinquish her without a fight.
The Sea and the Sand is the epic sequel in the McGann saga.
Iron Ships, Iron Men
1858, the United States of America.
A country ideologically divided: between those in the North who abhor the concept of slavery, and those in the South, for whom slavery is their lifeblood.
Upon the high seas, Lieutenant Rod Bascom is saved by Jerry McGann, and from their encounter grows a friendship.
After being dismissed from the navy for losing his ship, Englishman Rod returns with Jerry to his family home in the Northern United States.
Whilst in New York, Rod rescues two beautiful Southern Belles, Claudine and Marguerite Grahame.
This chance encounter shapes the course of his life: captivated by the beauty and naiveté of the sisters, Rod marries Claudine whilst all the while harbouring a secret desire for Marguerite, who has married Jerry.
As the siren call of the Civil War approaches, the brothers in law find themselves at destiny’s door.
Fighting on opposing sides of the conflict, the two men embark on epoch-making journeys around the globe, defending the rights they claim to believe in.
Through the years of the Civil War, from New Orleans to New England, from the Atlantic to the English Channel, Jerry and Rod are compelled to fight to the death for the love of Marguerite, and the right to survive in the world they have created.
In an epic tale of love, betrayal and conflict, Christopher Nicole takes us to the forefront of the American Civil War, in the midst of a relentless and bloody battle for freedom.
Wind of Destiny
In the final decade of the 1800s, spirited teenager Toni McGann is living a thoroughly modern American life with her family in Long Island.
From a stable, comfortable background, Toni has a bright future ahead of her.
Then she meets wealthy, cultured, Rafael, heir to a sugar plantation — and to a turbulent political future.
For Rafael is Cuban. As the young couple prepares to marry, Toni finds herself entranced by her fiancé’s family, their lifestyle — and by their English friend, John Lisle.
Against her own instincts, Toni marries Rafael, not knowing that in doing so she has sealed her own fate, and her own role in Cuba’s struggle against Spanish rule.
And as events unfold, it becomes clear that Rafael and his family are much more embroiled in political rebellion than Toni could ever have dreamed, and that as a result their lifestyle, their country — even their own lives — are at stake.
Far from living a life of luxury on their sugar plantation, Toni and her sister-in-law Christina are thrown headlong into a hellish world of combat and suffering. The women must draw upon all their bravery and ingenuity to survive and fight oppression, torture and the constant threat of destruction.
All around them, a vicious and blood-thirsty war in raging. Dare they even hope to come out of it alive?
And if they do — what then?
For Rafael’s Cuban rebels, the brightest hope seems to lie in aid from America. But the Americans want no part of this foreign war.
Raging Sea, Searing Sky
The North Atlantic, 1915.
War has been raging in Europe and it looks to continue for many years to come.
Lewis, son of Christina and Joe, known to his friends as ‘Lew’, grows from charming adolescent to brave seafarer.
At times passionate, at others brave, Lewis is the dashing romantic lead in this tale, which takes in 25 years of his life and his relationship with Brenda Grant, his beloved, and his sister Shirley.
He possesses all the McGann trademarks, including a love of the sea. Beginning in 1915 and spanning the tumultuous years of the Great War to the shattering onset of World War II, this is his story. It takes him from London to New York, from Shanghai to Pearl Harbour.
Other more exotic characters appear in Lew’s life, like the loyal Hashimoto Kurita and Lieutenant Hallstrom, in a wonderful picaresque tale that forms a crucial part in the McGann saga.
Will Lew survive these turbulent years?
Or will raging seas and passionate romances prove too much for the young McGann?
In the tradition of great romantic novels, readers of Austen and Bronte will enjoy the passion felt between characters. Fans of Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong will appreciate the scenes set in a wartime environment, as Lew joins up with the British Navy and trains in the North Sea.
Raging Sea, Searing Sky is the fifth in Christopher Nicole’s best-selling The McGann saga.
The Passion and the Glory
When the Japanese dropped bombs on Pearl Harbour, America entered the Second World War.
For Walter, youngest son of Lewis McGann, this meant the long-awaited opportunity to see some action — and the chance, too, of fighting alongside his brother Clive, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
But for both the McGann brothers it was a time of great anxiety as well as exhilaration; their sister Joan was in Hong Kong — and the beleaguered colony was experiencing Japanese savagery at first hand.
Walter and Clive experience the excitement, hardships, and horrors of World War II as officers in the Royal Navy, while their sister, Joan, trapped in Hong Kong, discovers the brutality of the Japanese conquerors.
The final volume of Christopher Nicole’s bestselling saga of the McGann family, The Passion And The Glory, is the turbulent story of Clive, Walter and Joan — each fighting the horrors of the war and each determined to survive.
Will the siblings ever be reunited?
Or will they be lost to each other and history as they fight against the formidable Japanese forces?
The Passion and the Glory is the fourth installment in The McGann saga.
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