Desperadoes

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A telephone call shatters the calm of a Dublin summer morning bringing terrible news from war-torn Nicaragua: Johnny Little has been caught up in a mysterious skirmish and killed. Grief-stricken his estranged parents Frank and Eleanor set out on the arduous journey to bring their wayward son home. It's a quest that will have profound consequences: in this hauntingly beautiful land of poetry, guns and frantic salsa music, nothing is quite what it seems ...

Joseph O'Connor is a trainer, consultant and author of thirteen books. His work has been translated into ten languages. He travels internationally to lecture on NLP and runs his own NLP website. John Seymour is a consultant, trainer, author and founder of JS Associates - the longest-established NLP training organisation in the UK, providing NLP skills training for personal and organisational development. One of Britain's most experienced NLP trainers, Fellow of the North American Association for NLP and serves on the advisory board of the international NLP journal 'NLP World'.

'An astonishing display of assured, emotive, witty writing. Read it.' Independent on Sunday'This is a very entertaining novel. It is also a generously humane one.' Sunday Times'Ireland's most brilliant storyteller.' Sunday Independent'Desperadoes is an intelligent thriller that attempts to explore the way in which children always remain a mystery to the people who raise them.' New Statesman