The Fallon Legacy, Robert Jordan
The Fallon Legacy, Robert Jordan
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The Fallon Legacy

Author: Robert Jordan, Reagan O'Neal

Series: Fallon #3

Narrator: Raphael Corkhill

Unabridged: 17 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/31/2018


Synopsis

The thrilling conclusion to Robert Jordan's acclaimed Fallon trilogy traces the family's fortunes as it expands westward. The Fallon Legacy is the tale of a father and son who have never met but who share a destiny and drive born of their blood, with one struggling to hold our nation together and the other to expand it.

Well past his prime, Robert Fallon now fights the battles of politics to save the country he cherishes from civil war. It is 1832, and the high tariffs that protect northern industry are crippling the South. President Andrew Jackson thinks force is the answer to the South's threats of secession. Robert must pay a final-hour visit to Washington, as an appeal to Jackson and Congress to pass a compromise tariff before the country is torn apart.

Like his father and grandfather before him, James Fallon is a man of vision and iron will, determined to succeed. But where his forebears were men of the sea, he is a man of the land, the vast land of northern Mexico--a land called Texas.

James sets out for Stephen Austin's colony of Americans with dreams of a horse-breeding empire. The land is harsh enough, but he soon learns that Fallon's past harbors deadly shadows--Cordelia Applegate and Gerard Fourrier. With political influence, hired pistoleros, and Comanches, they seek to destroy all Fallons.

But James has more pressing troubles. He and the other settlers, including Jim Bowie, Austin, and Sam Houston, are outraged as their rights of property come and go with the shifting winds of Mexican politics.

Rumors of Santa Anna's rise to power in Mexico City have driven the Americans to prepare to fight for the land that has absorbed their sweat and blood. Santa Anna will soon be on the march to drive the yanquis out of Mexico, and events are moving swiftly toward the conflagration that will give birth to the Republic of Texas.

About Robert Jordan

ROBERT JORDAN (1948-2007) is best known for his internationally bestselling epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time®, which has sold over 100 million copies worldwide and is currently being adapted for the screen. A native of Charleston, Jordan graduated from The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and received multiple decorations for his service.

About Reagan O'Neal

Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He is a graduate of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. A history buff, he has also written dance and theater criticism and enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing, and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting.Robert Jordan began writing in 1977 and went on to write The Wheel of Time®, one of the most important and best selling series in the history of fantasy publishing with over 14 million copies sold in North America, and countless more sold abroad.Robert Jordan died on September 16, 2007, after a courageous battle with the rare blood disease amyloidosis.Jordan wrote the historical novel series, The Fallon Trilogy, under the pseudonym Reagan O'Neal.

About Raphael Corkhill

Raphael Corkhill is an award-winning stage, screen and voice actor. Born and raised in the UK, Raphael graduated from Princeton University then gained his MFA in acting from the University of Southern California. Raphael’s film and television credits include the Warner Bros. feature The Goldfinch, independent TV pilot Manny, and Burning at Both Ends alongside Cary Elwes. His extensive voice credits include billion-dollar video game franchises: Uncharted 4 (BAFTA “Best Game” winner), The Elder Scrolls Online and Titanfall 2, as well as the recent blockbuster ESO: Morrowind. Raphael has narrated numerous titles for Macmillan including The Fallon Trilogy and his audiobook performances have been described by Publisher’s Weekly as “terrific.”


Reviews

[2 stars=probably won't read again] This was an inconclusive conclusion of a lackluster series. The Fallons end up at key points in American history, and this installment wanders through the time after the War of 1812 in South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, and Washington which is somewhat obscure. It i......more

Goodreads review by Chip

In the Fallon Legacy, the story concentrates mostly on James Fallon, Robert Fallon's long lost son. The story takes you through James' adventures in the Texas frontier. Amidst much excitment and adventure, Robert Jordan is able to provide the reader with an extraordinary amount of history and cultur......more

Goodreads review by Chris

My least favorite of the trilogy, which focuses mostly on young James Fallon as he tries to forge his new life in the Texas Territory as the fight for independence against the Mexican Government ensues. The history around this time period in the late 1820s and early 1830s is interesting, but the new......more

Goodreads review by itchy

eponymous sentence: p340: If you share this Fallon legacy, I ask you to temper it, as I have never been able to. ocr: p278: Austin wasn't a drinker--if anything he led an ascetic lire--but the saloons were the center of political talk in Nacogdoches, and if anything would draw Austin, it was politics. I......more

Goodreads review by Gary

I really enjoyed this series as a whole, but I felt least invested in this particular volume. Not to say that I didn't enjoy it. I loved the historical tie-ins in this epic story and, pending the success of the forthcoming Wheel of Time, it may be something we see as a Netflix series in the future.......more