Anthony McDonald (1)

I read this book after panning a short that the author wrote under the name Tony Pike. I was surprised at the quality of this intense story. I liked Orlando and his spirit. Oliver was a little more difficult to get into. I found it hard to believe that he did not realize that the courier service wasn't smuggling from the get go. The adventurous theme that runs through the story keeps it interesting although at times it reads like a travel guide. There were times where the fiction overlapped with the fact and hit hard as if it was taken from today's headlines. I recommend this well put together story if you enjoy your fiction on the realistic side. My compliments Mr. McDonald.… (mehr)

A story of two young men, 21 and 18, who fell in love in the summer of 1962 but who had the unfortunate circumstance of being employed as instructors in a Catholic preparatory school at the time, is at the center of this tragic-comic tale. Tom and Christopher are their names. Father Louis, the senior headmaster, is standing in the corner opposite them. He believes that the 1960s will be remembered as the decade in which the Catholic Church achieved its heavenly victory. When Miss O'Deere, the art mistress, decides to paint Tom and Christopher as David and Jonathan and put the finished product in a public exhibition, Tom and Christopher's lives become more complicated. Not to mention the bothersome attentions that 13-year-old Angelo Dexter gave them.e.… (mehr)