The brave
by Nicholas Evans
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The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.
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Family secrets, Fathers and sons, Father-son relationship, Fiction, Civilian war casualties, Secrecy, Soldiers, War casualties, Recollection (Psychology), Trials (Military offenses), Fiction, romance, fantasy, Fiction, family life, Fathers and sons, fiction, Iraq, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Hollywood (los angeles, calif.), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Spanish language materials, Familia, Novela, Secretos, Padres e hijos, Militares, Procesos criminales, Boarding school students, Brothers and sisters, Social conditions, Rappel (Psychologie), Romans, nouvelles, Secrets de famille, Pères et fils, Guerre civile, Pertes, Procès (Délits militaires)Places
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El hombre que quería ser valiente
2011, Planeta
in Spanish
- 1. ed. en México.
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The brave: a novel
2010, Little, Brown and Co.
in English
- Large print ed.
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Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2010.
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Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
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