Linking Verbs

About the Book

Pawleys island has always been governed by the moon and the tide, the fates and the muses. Five rock and roll girls had vacationed there in the mid-60s, where they befriended a young wounded Vietnam vet. One of the girls, Joanie, enters the Ursuline, but reemerges after a dozen years. One of Sister Joan's closest friends in the convent had almost been killed by the Contras in El Salvador.

The CIA had been running the quiet Contra operation from the South Carolina coast. On a return visit to Pawleys in the mid-80s, the girls run into Sumter and the CIA operation.

Sumter and Joanie are drawn to one another, but first they must confront the ghosts of the past and the presence of the secretive organization.

About the Author

John O'Boyle is a man of letters. After a 37 year career with the Post Office in Cleveland, he is retired and writing in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
He has also written Thorns in Arcadia, a political history covering Engand's first seven hundred years in Ireland. The work is a compilation of the differing lectures of the English historian, James Anthony Froude, and the Irish Dominican priest, Father Thomas Nicholas Burke.
The lectures were given in New York City in 1872.