Corrigan's Run

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Santa
Maria, the Solomon Islands, 1941.



According to Father Goode, the worst thing
Corrigan ever did was impregnate his housekeeper during the Sunday service.



Well, almost the worst thing. Later, while
she is on a rescue mission to save a native chief on an outlying island, he
also raped and murdered his niece, Rachel. At least that’s what he tells the
British District Officer, Ian Manning.



But the next day Rachel returns safe and
sound; and besides, Manning has problems enough of his own. The Japanese have
captured Singapore and the islands will soon fall into their hands. The
Americans are making a vital stand on Guadalcanal. And they need someone to
stay behind wehen everyone else is evacuated, and man the radio, to spy on the
Japanese.



The archetypal hard-drinking self
destructive remittance man, Corrigan has no intention of leaving his life of
depravity; after he’s Irish and neutral. And Father Goode will not abandon his
flock. But when the Japanese arrive, and Father Goode is arrested, the
situation becomes more complicated. And when Rachel comes to Patrick Corrigan
for his help, it gets more complicated still.



As the battle for nearby Guadalcanal
reaches its climax, the fate of the Marines stationed there, and perhaps the
fate of the whole Pacific, rests on the daily reports of one Englishman with a
radio. But when he is injured, who is going to take over?



And finally Patrick Corrigan must make the
choice; whether he will keep running away, as he has all his life; or stay and
fight for the first cause he has come to believe in - a missionary’s niece
called Rachel Goode.



Colin Falconer is the best selling author
of ANASTASIA and the OPIUM series and fifteen other best selling novels. His
books have been translated into eighteen languages.