Captains and Kings

Product Description
Joseph Armagh was 13 when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850's and he was a penniless orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. Captains and the Kings is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top.
About the Author
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback. In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons, as in her best-known works Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke) and The Earth is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan). She published her last novel in 1980.\nSusie Berneis is a versatile voice over artist with numerous narration credits to her name. She has an ear for dialect and a love for the process of developing characters, cultivated in her 20-plus years of experience as a community and regional stage actress. Based in Ann Arbor, (home of the University of Michigan, where she received her BA in English and Theatre) Susie now takes great joy in playing all the characters she encounters in her narration.
Review \n“An absorbing story . . . Thought-provoking. Those who were enthralled by the power described in
The Godfather will be even more so when they read this book.” —
Cleveland Press\n“A spellbinding tale . . . Her sense of timing and her ability to keep even the most alert reader guessing is something readers don’t find very often.” —
Hartford Courant\n“Her best novel.” —
Minneapolis Star-Tribune\n“This bestselling author can tell an engrossing story. She proves it once again in this gigantic novel.” —
Publishers Weekly\n“There is intrigue, violence, abrupt shift of fortune, enigmatic characters, full details of scene and history, and the unflagging pace of varied action.” —
Buffalo Evening News\n“
Captains and the Kings is a thought-provoking, utterly spellbinding novel in the great tradition of Taylor Caldwell’s earlier works,
Testimony of Two Men and
Great Lion of God.” —
The Literary Guild Magazine