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Arizona banker Kayla Shaw barely escapes a kidnapping attempt only to find herself accused of money laundering, a charge that brings her to the attention of Rand McCree, an operative of the mysterious St. Kilda consulting company whose investigation of the Russian criminal who killed his brother reveals links to Kayla's case.

"Ireland, 1918. In a world brutalized by the Great War and devastated by the Spanish flu, twenty-two-year-old Rynn Carmichael is suddenly pulled into the war of independence when Donal O'Reilly, the boy she has loved for most of her life, takes up gunrunning in support of the rebellion. Raised in a small Irish village on the shores of Donegal Bay, Rynn is working as a nurse in a convalescent home for soldiers wounded in the Great War when she overhears...

Months before his death, José Saramago felt once again the vital impulse from fiction to reflect on one of its major concerns: violence against persons and societies, which makes them victims and prevents them from owning their absolute lives. The result of this impulse is Halberds, halberds, muskets, shotguns, an exciting footprint inexhaustible fighting spirit of José Saramago and his last narrative will. The unfinished story has a moral conflict...