The Sins Of Their Fathers (Eastend Trilogy, 1)

by Gilda O ' Neill (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $11.96

  The East End belongs to the O'Donnells. Tough, violent and proud, Gabriel O'Donnell has fought his way up from poor Irish roots to run the gambling, prostitution and protection empire that makes him rich, and that one day his boys, Brendan and Luke, will take over. It's not easy to love a man when violent crime is his career, as Eileen O'Donnell knows, so she's invested everything in her children: icy cool Brendan; Luke, who hates the horror of gang warfare; irrepressible Catherine with her verve for life; and Patricia, married to a man whose brainless viciousness is close to madness. Then Kessler turns up. An enemy from the old days, he's got plans to move in on Gabe O'Donnell's turf. But Gabe swears he will see him burn in hell before that happens, no matter how much blood gets spilt. It's that obsession which leads to a tragedy that changes all their lives...A spellbinding novel of the sixties underworld, full of menace and darkness, The Sins of Their Fathers will grip you to the end as two families are locked in a ruthless struggle of money, love and pride, determined to win no matter what the cost.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.28

  Do it, just fucking do it. With those words, those six, stupid, semi-literate words, Gabriel O'Donnell sets in motion a sequence of events that will dominate the lives of two families for the next three generations, and which bring in their wake a series of murders, guilt, hatred and revenge. It is the East End of the early 1960s, an era of raw, violent crime, but times are good for the O'Donnells. They have the gambling, the working girls, and all the protection rackets well under their control. They are feared and respected. But then Harold Kessler, an old enemy of Gabriel's, actually has the impudence to think he can bring his family back to east London and just move in on the O'Donnells' businesses. Gabriel won't accept such liberty taking and sends his sons round to teach the Kesslers a lesson. But when the boys confront Kessler's son, Sammy, in the street, things go horribly wrong, and one of them accidentally shoots dead a seventeen-year-old girl. As the terrible realisation dawns that the girl is none other than Catherine - their own sister, who has been secretly seeing Sammy Kessler - the mayhem really begins. Things can never be the same again.