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Evans, Nicholas, 1950-

The brave / Nicholas Evans. - London : Little, Brown, 2010. - 353 p. ; 24 cm.

The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.


ISBN: 9781408702895 (pbk.) 1408702894 (pbk.) 9781408702888 (hbk.) 1408702886 (hbk.)

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB067766 bnb GBB062862 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015566850 Uk 015556925 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Boarding school students--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social conditions--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914