Cassidy
by Morris West
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When a powerful Australian politician dies, he leaves a tangled international web of debt and corruption for his son-in-law to unravel. Can Gregory avoid the trap that's been set for him?.Tags
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Well written story involving law, corruption, politics, family jealousies and tense stand-offs.
Cassidy, a master politician has died and left his crooked empire to be disposed of to his hated son-in-law. A nightmare journey through a savage underworld of corruption, terror and shattering revelation as the sins of one man reach out to possess another. Made into a TV mini series.
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El abogado Martin Gregory y su esposa Pat reciben en Londres la inesperada visita de Charles Cassidy, el padre de ella, con quien habían perdido todo contacto tras dejar Australia para casarse sin su consentimiento. Cassidy, importante político y despiadado hombre de negocios, confiesa a Martin que padece una grave enfermedad y le pide que sea su albacea testamentario. Su yerno y antiguo ayudante se ve moralmente obligado a aceptar aunque sospecha que se trata de un encargo envenenado. Ni se imagina hasta qué punto.
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Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent show more four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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