ASIN: B00C47F25U
Publisher: Xynobooks, LLC
Pages: 302
Transported to an island prison off Australia for a minor crime, 19th century Irish farmer Laurence Frayne is thrust into a hellish world of back-breaking labor, corruption and torture. The prisoners are flogged routinely, nearly starved and must struggle not only against the British soldiers who guard them, but the predators in their own ranks.Frayne fights to maintain his hope and sanity over his years of imprisonment, his only desire to return home to Ireland and his younger sister. A sadistic prison commandant, the hald-mad and disfigured Morriset, singles out Frayne and determines to break him as an example to the other prisoners.Hope for the inmates appears in the person of a prison reformer, Alexander Maconochie, but will Maconochie be able to triumph over the conspiracy arrayed against him?Meanwhile, in the present day, two of Frayne's descendants wage their own struggle to ...
