Hoover's Children - Softcover

Irons, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988537028 ISBN 13: 9780988537026

Publisher: Riverrun Bookstore Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Somehow, somewhere a secret list of ultra-radical college students has been smuggled out of a federal prison. At J.Edgar Hoover's direction, a covert plan has been concocted to coerce young Americans into becoming undercover agents in a desperate attempt to find that list and neutralize the Weather Underground before it can join forces with the Black Panthers. Sean O'Neal leaves the tough streets of South Boston to become a Green Beret and fight a guerilla war in the jungles of Vietnam. He returns home with his life shattered, and finds himself ensnared in Hoover's plan. Jack Duncan, a child of the counter-culture, leaves college to travel overseas. What he doesn't know is that the FBI has put him directly in Sean O'Neal's crosshairs.

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Irons was born at a Manhattan Project reservation in Richland, WA where plutonium was enriched for use in the H-Bomb. When he was ten, his father died. His mother, a poet, moved the family of seven children east to Exeter, NH. During the heart of the Vietnam War, he served three years as a Consciencous Objector working with soldiers addicted to heroin. He dropped out of college after nine months and became a carpenter, a contractor and taught himself architecture. He became one of the last self-taught architects in the country, becoming licensed in California in 1994. Mayor Willie Brown appointed him City Architect of San Francisco. In 2000, Tony was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. At Harvard, Tony studied creative writing with Anne Bernays through the Neiman Foundation. He and his wife Lee lived in a small apartment just off Harvard Square. It was there that Tony wrote many of his short stories about his experiences in Mississippi and Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. He and Lee live in NH. Tony’s second novel, set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, will be published in Summer of 2013.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverrun Bookstore Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0988537028
• ISBN 13: 9780988537026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298