Following a band of malcontents on their hazardous years-long trek deep into the Alaskan wilderness, the saga tells the story of uncommon visionary Jack Houlihan and his indomitable wife, Eula Lea, who lead their family and followers on a quest to leave civilization behind. The band’s odyssey leads them through a landscape both splendid and deadly where wolves, bears, and natural disasters take their tragic toll. The death of the family matriarch presages the story of Caitlin who, as an adult, will struggle to survive in a contemporary world for which her wilderness childhood never prepared her. In this journey of discovery, author Hugh Mahoney paints a complex portrait of a man and his family as they face the joys and perils of the great Alaskan wilderness. At once both a fascinating adventure story and a vivid account of a family that rejects conventional living, The Sun Catcher is a work of grand scope and lyric power.

The Sun Catcher

Literature & Fiction

Mahoney, Hugh

Literary

High Cliff Press

Enter the Alaska wilderness—where only the strongest survive. The Sun Catcher is a powerful portrait of a man who considers a life without risk as not worth living. At once both a fascinating adventure story and a vivid account of a family that rejects conventional living, The Sun Catcher is a work of grand scope and lyric power. Following a band of malcontents on their hazardous years-long trek deep into the Alaskan wilderness, the saga tells the story of the uncommon visionary Jack Houlihan and his indomitable wife Eula Lea who lead their family and followers on a dramatic quest to leave civilization behind. The band’s odyssey leads them through a landscape both splendid and deadly where wolves, bears, and natural disasters take their tragic toll. The death of the family matriarch presages the story of Caitlin who as an adult will struggle to survive in a contemporary world for which her wilderness childhood never prepared her. The story of the nomadic band is one of harrowing adventure unfolding across a magnificent landscape, while that of Caitlin is one of struggle, heartbreak and cultural loss. The Sun Catcher is a journey of discovery. Author Hugh Mahoney paints a stunningly complex portrayal of a man and his family as they face the joys and perils of the great Alaskan wilderness.

Action & Adventure

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

From WATER STREET PRESS New Yorkers open their Sunday morning paper to find a photo of Virgil Quinn, teacher of history at St. Lucy’s School for Boys, splashed all over the front page. How did he get there? Scandal, of course. Virgil has made enemies—the Cardinal of New York not the least among them. The Cardinal’s research reveals that Virgil has lived many lives, all of them scandalous. Was he really a ranking nun in the Sisters of Mercy of Baton Rouge? Did he really walk the ramps of Seventh Avenue as the city’s highest paid supermodel? Just how did he come to know all those men whose names appear in his notorious (and deadly convenient) Black Books? Virgins & Martyrs is shrewd and malicious fun, a wicked commentary on love, life, gender and the history of our nation, a work in which the peripatetic and intrepid—yet all-too-human—Virgil Quinn lets no one off the hook.

Virgins & Martyrs

Contemporary

Water Street Press

"Go back to Gringolandia, muchacho, or next time we steal the family jewels." Ordered by the powers who control him to undertake this perilous mission, what is Virgil to do? 
 Virgil Quinn finds himself at loose ends. His battles with the Cardinal of New York are behind him. Mary Ellen, his beloved mate of many years, has passed on to her just reward. A visit to Omaha, his home town, tells him that a man can't go home again. 
 Where then? What to do with his life? Reform of course. It's all he knows, and he converts an old Dodge van into a mini-RV and takes to the road to rectify the evils he is sure to find along the way. 
 First to Griswald, a desolate oil town held in permanent bondage by absentee billionaires. On to Luchaloca where he is caught up in a murderous dynastic struggle dating back to the days of Billy the Kid, a struggle that proves to be not what it appears. A visit by the deceased nun Sister Philomena, his lifelong mentor, sends him south on a mission far more dangerous than any he has faced in the past. Telling himself that his battles with the powerful Cardinal of New York have prepared him for the worst to come, he crosses the border into Mexico on a mission that history tells him could put him before a firing squad. 
 Crooks and hypocrites, killers and parasites, oligarchs and churchmen, Virgil must do battle with them all-and survive to write about it.

Crime and Consequence

Outskirts Press

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The Sun Catcher

The Sun Catcher

Virgins & Martyrs

Crime and Consequence