Naked in Havana (29 page)
“He who will fight the Devil with his own weapons must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch.”
There was no God, no justice. But there was such a thing as hell, and he was living in it. You should have taken the money. He couldn’t breathe. He slid down the wall and started to sob.
“Your father is a pit bull who has to tell himself he is a romantic because otherwise he would lie awake at night screaming at his own evil. He is the devil with a brandy balloon. All my life I try and explain this to you. Please do not try and make me cry for him. I would rather weep for a scorpion being crushed under the wheels of a truck.”
The Jerusalem Series
The story of how Israel became Palestine. Palestine, 1933. The centuries old rhythms of sleepy Rab’allah have been disturbed by the building of a Jewish kibbutz on the swamp in the valley below the village. The Jews are the future, the twentieth century. The Jews are the enemy. The Jews are their new neighbors.
The story of how Israel became Palestine. Rosenberg could feel the net closing in. After his father dies in a Nazi concentration camp he tries everything to get himself and his mother out of Germany – even if it means leaving behind the woman he loves.
The story of how Israel became Palestine. Palestine, 1945. Netanel Rosenberg has escaped the Nazi death camps, only to almost die on the rocks of his Promised Land, breaking the British blockade.
The story of how Israel became Palestine. And Rishou Hass’an thought: How many more sons must I bury?
Ebook Short Stories
"If you haven’t read one of Colin Falconer’s novels, then I promise you are in for a real roller-coaster ride …’ Mirella Patzer, Historical Novel Review
'It was the year I broke a bone in my leg, the year I got my first kiss and the year Jesus got himself shot.'
One dead Japanese pearl diver is starting to smell. A big, slow Filipino crewman is making trouble in Sheba Lane. And a beautiful girl called Amy O'Rourke has stirred his dreams.
Other Historicals
“If you haven’t read one of Colin Falconer’s novels, then I promise you are in for a real roller-coaster ride of never ending intrigue ...” --
Mirella Patzer, Historical Novel Review
Santa Maria, the Solomon Islands, 1941.
According to Father Goode, the worst thing Corrigan ever did was impregnate his housekeeper during the Sunday service.
Other Books by Colin Falconers
