Your First Born Shall Die
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ISBN10: 1717785476
ISBN13: 9781717785473
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 25 2018
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781717785473
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 25 2018
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Catholic couple is stunned and shocked when they are callously told their perfect baby will die of a rare disease predominant among Ashkenazi Jews. The Father, Paul Wienaciewski, a successful entrepreneur engineer raised as an orphan in a parish rectory, at first rages in denial. But his wife, Maria Castille, a WAC veteran of the Vietnam War, discovers the truth and fears that God is perhaps punishing her for a fatal sin in her past. Beginning with Polish codebreakers in WWII, through the surprise Tet attack in Vietnam and the nuclear weapons industry in the mid-twentieth century, a series of fateful coincidences and vivid flashbacks pull the reader through combat, murder, revenge, bribery, bankruptcy, assassinations, romance, and sex into the 21st century. With historical backgrounds, this intriguing story is a fictional precursor to current headline events in today's media. This adult upmarket novel is ideal for book clubs and readers who enjoy compelling plots, strong female characters and exotic, dangerous places.
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