Dimensions
158 x 199 x 42mm
Pete Hamill's internationally acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains . . . forever.
Cormac O'Connor is on a quest to avenge the death of his parents and honour the code of his ancestors. It is a journey that takes him from Ireland to the settlement of New York, where, in return for aiding an African shaman, he is given an otherworldly gift: Cormac will live forever, as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan.
So unfolds the story of the intertwined lives of a man and a city. As New York grows from a tiny community into a thriving metropolis, Cormac is an insurrectionist, a revolutionary, an activist, a chronicler - a man of his times who knows all the buried secret Manhattan has to offer . . .