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    Revenge is a Family Affair
    Revenge is a Family Affair
    Revenge is a Family Affair
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    Revenge is a Family Affair

    By Jake Doherty

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    This latest installment in the Fergus Fitzgerald and Dr. Mary Fraser series is an epic Irish brawl set in Country Cork in a Northeast corner of Ireland. Alternately funny and scary, it features an almost-forgotten band of aging kidnappers and a family with the generational steel to never give in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJake Doherty
    Release dateNov 12, 2017
    ISBN9781772420722
    Revenge is a Family Affair
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    Jake Doherty

    Born in New Brunswick, Jake Doherty graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and has a Master's degree from Colombia University in New York. He worked as a reporter, editor and publisher of the Hamilton Spectator, Owen Sound Sun Times and Kingston Whig Standard before retiring. He presently writes from Acton Ontario.

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      Revenge is a Family Affair - Jake Doherty

      Revenge is a Family Affair

      From Canada’s Manitoulin Island to Ireland’s County Cork

      Jake Doherty

      ISBN Smashwords: 978-1-77242-072-2

      E-Pub Edition 2017 (Carrick Publishing)

      Copyright 2017 Jake Doherty

      Cover design by Françoise Doherty and Jake Doherty

      Author Photo credit: Françoise Doherty

      e-Formatting by Carrick Publishing.

      Smashwords Licence Notes:

      This e-book is intended for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be sold or given away to other people. If you’re reading this e-book and did not purchase it, please return to Smashwords and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      CONTENTS

      Revenge is a Family Affair

      Bonus Short Story: Death in Safe Harbour

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Preface

      The Other Side of Despair

      Retribution leads to a cycle of reprisal, leading to counter reprisal in an exorable moment, as in Rwanda, Northern Ireland, the former Yugoslavia... The only break in that cycle, making it possible for a new beginning is forgiveness. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

      ~ Bishop Desmond TuTu of South Africa

      Globe & Mail

      Chapter One

      Fergus, wake up, it’s for you.

      Mary tapped him on his shoulder, but he just grunted, and tightly wrapped the hand-sewn comforter under his chin.

      It’s Liam, so—

      So it’s too early, too damn that, tell him I’ll call him back in the morning. Not now!

      Yes, now! she yelled in his right ear and pulled the covers back, almost decapitating him.

      Or so it felt to Fergus. God save me from morning people, he thought.

      Give me the bloody phone then. Liam, it’s not even sun-up here, so this better be important. Where are ya? Cork? At the paper?

      Liam didn’t answer quickly, and Fergus heard only a sharp intake of breath.

      Get to it man. Your mom, is she safe?

      Mom’s okay, thank God, just a little bruising. They left her but took Conall. He’s gone.

      What’ya mean gone? Gone where? Who took him? Does the Garda know?

      Slow down Fergus. I’m not sure. Not young guys, I could tell that much. Just older guys with masks and one gun. They busted in the door when we were finishing our tea, pushed the old woman aside, grabbed him, and were gone. The coppers are dusting the place for prints.

      Gone, just like that, eh! How can I—? Keep me informed when you, well you know. Give your mom a hug for us.

      By that time Mary had put on a robe, and shook her long black hair loose as Fergus explained what he had just heard. They were in the upper bedroom in their own farmhouse on Manitloulin Island, five hours northwest of Toronto and light years away from Cork, Ireland, and married only a few months, though they’d lived together for more than a year. She was Ojibwa by birth and he had come to Canada during the Vietnam War as an anti-war protester.

      Which he still was, he reminded himself, the ex-Yank with an indelible mark on his soul, the way the priests had taught him. The Vietcong were bloody easy to ignore. Go to Canada instead. Easy to fit in. But not for him, not now.

      Jesus, Mary and —

      Mary sensed the cross-winds buffeting her man again, out of the north like a rogue storm. He would not go hunting like most of the men on Manitoulin, or even have a gun in the house. Or accept offers of fresh venison from friends who did hunt. On the other hand, he loved roast beef and chicken, not questioning how they arrived on his plate.

      So how can I be of any use in Ireland? she wondered. Pour everyone a drink and fly home?

      Even their few friends called them an old couple. An ex-reporter from Boston, Fergus still pretended he was writing a grand novel, and revered a tattered Bruins hockey sweater, a left-over talisman of sorts from his New England past. Mary, Dr. Mary Fraser, held art courses on the island for Ojibwa women who, like herself, had come back to Manitoulin to sort out their aboriginal identities, long-lost from childhood abuse. She was on leave from the University of Toronto where she’d received a doctorate several years earlier, and now taught art history. She detested sports clothes as juvenile.

      Took Conall, did the bloody bastards? Fergus muttered to himself. Should have expected this. Why him? I’m the ranking target. The ff-ing bastards. Too much Irish courage?

      First light slowly worked its way into the century-old farm house, which was still damp and cold in the way of older frame houses as they went downstairs into the kitchen. He turned on the computer, and brought up Google while she prepared coffee.

      You don’t look surprised, Fergus, said Mary. Whatever, why not, are you…?

      "Don’t push me so fast woman. Give me a sec, and yes, this is worse than I expected. Bloody hell, can’t those thugs accept it’s over? Nobody cares ’bout the old days, not even the Cork Times. Perhaps the kidnapping had missed the deadline. Not a line on its website either. Strange, Liam being its editor. Why so calm? A side deal?"

      Mary knew her man well enough not to push him when he was in a mood as he was apt to explain while working through pain and hurt, and not prepared to share. He’d been in Canada for almost 40 years since he had graduated from Boston College, and taken an over-night to Toronto instead of reporting to the US Army during the Vietnam War.

      Nothing about Conall then? probed Mary as she handed him warmed up coffee from the micro-wave. She poured a cup for herself, and then stroked Fergus’ forearm. He was almost two metres tall, and she fit under his chin, arms snuggled around his paunchy waist. This was their morning ritual on better days, as they seldom kissed.

      Except in bed.

      "But if you expected something like this, why didn’t you tell me? Come on man, we’re married, and I need to know what’s under that dark soul of yours. I’m not the only one with scars

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