Description
<p>When Jessica Bryant pesters her wealthy parents to allow her to have a dog as a pet, the answer is a resounding "No"; but they soon come to regret their decision when thier home is broken into one evening whilst they are out and their daughter kidnapped and held for ransom. The kidnappers, in the form of four seedy and incompetent characters wearing Disneyland-type masks, take her hostage and keep her incarcerated in a place from which there appears to be no escape. However, they reckon without the resourcefulness of our heroine, and the courage of a wonderful stray dog who comes to her aid and whom she names 'Murdo'. And so begins an exciting and humurous accounting of the couples' adventures together as they consistently foil and outwit the abductors whilst on the run together.<br /> This is a lovely story of the friendship between a girl and a dog, bringing out themes of responsibility, camaraderie, redemption, salvation and self-sacrifice. It includes some wonderful dialogue sequences as Jessica teaches her new four-legged friend how to communicate with her, with additional delightful conversations between the animals when a rabbit and a sparrow join forces with them in an effort to outwit the kidnappers and restore Jessica safely back to her parents' home. </p>
Story Behind The Book
Working class American families of faith, the fathers and sons, who have always been the people called upon to do the real dangerous actual work of war in combat. These same Americans don't always enjoy their constitutional rights and bill of rights protections because they live near the bottom of the American socioeconomic totem pole. Money talks and bullshit walks in the USA. Follow the story of a young working poor Irish-American youth, beginning in 1960, at 6 years old, growing up in the rust-belt, and bible-belt, of the Midwestern part of the USA, in the economically depressed rust-belt factory town of Kalamazoo, Michigan. and following his life until 2002. Political commentary about the history, politics, and the many wars of the USA, and current political commentary during Walter McGinn, the main characters life, until just after 9/11/01. When the greatest crisis of his life happens, when his two very young sons enlist into the Marine Corp, immediately after 9/11/01.
