CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT

by W.R. Burnett ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A rash romp through 19th century Ireland follows the high and wide exploits of Michael Martin of Kilkenny, who leaves for Dublin where he is taken in the tutelage of Captain Doherty, a rogue of considerable aplomb. But Doherty is wounded and dies, and leaves Michael heir not only to the dubious activities for which he has groomed him, but also to Aga, his unacknowledged daughter. Michael continues to run a gaming house- with Lady Anne, once Doherty's mistress; he disposes of an old enemy-in a duel; and he marries the headstrong Aga. But memories of Kilkenny and Ballymore take him back there, and for the sake of Katherine, whom he had once loved, he goes to the rescue of Regis Donnell- now taken prisoner and to be hanged by the Castle. Michael replaces him in the Castle- and is doomed to die- when Aga frees him and they seek safety together on another shore.... The sporting life and its high charge of courage and unruly virtue provides a superficial entertainment- awash in swash and just possibly buckling under.

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Publisher: Knopf

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: FICTION