The Lighthouse Keepers, Adrian McKinty
The Lighthouse Keepers, Adrian McKinty
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The Lighthouse Keepers
The Lighthouse Trilogy, Book 3

Author: Adrian McKinty

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/06/2011


Synopsis

Here is the stunning conclusion to an epic trilogy that Childrens Literature calls a thoughtprovoking scifi adventure with universal appeal. The worlds that Adrian McKintys characters inhabit are vividly real. In this final and most ambitious book in a wonderfully inventive trilogy, veteran interplanetary travelers Jamie and Ramsay must protect their alien friend Wishaway, now living with them on Earth, from the scrutiny of sinister forces on their own planet. In the meantime, Wishaways beloved home planet of Altair seems to be hurtling toward doom. Just when circumstances on both worlds are at their most dire, members of the ancient race who built the mysterious lighthouses return to offer Jamie a terrible choice. He can save Earth or Altair, but not both. The fate of two planets is in the hands of the teenage Lord Ui Neill. Which home will he save? His own or Wishaways?

About Adrian McKinty

How does one graduate from prestigious Oxford University and end up with such a mixture of odd jobs. Such was the life of Irish born author, Adrian McKinty. He was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1968 as number four of five children. His father was a welder and boilermaker, but then became a merchant seaman. Adrian grew up reading crime novels and science fiction.

McKinty moved to New York City after receiving his Oxford degree, where he lived in Harlem. This is where the Oxford graduate took jobs as bartender, security guard, bookstore clerk, rugby coach, door to door salesman, and librarian for the Columbia University Medical School Library. After that, Adrian moved to Denver, Colorado where he was a high school English teacher. During this phase of his career, he began writing fiction with his first novel being, Dead I Well May Be. It received great recognition from peer review publishers. The next award winning novel was the sequel to his first entitled, The Dead Yard.

McKinty and his wife moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2008 with their children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JohnP on May 07, 2012

It’s one year since the end of book 2. Everyone is trying to adjust to life back on Earth. Thaddeus come to Ireland to watch Jamie while his mom and Brian (!) go away for a vacation. Meanwhile psychics to work for the CIA get images of a boy who is destined to destroy the Earth. Agents search for th......more

Goodreads review by Aoife62 on October 23, 2014

I listened to the Lighthouse Trilogy as an audio book. I had to get used to Gerard Doyle's reading, beacause initially I found his voice too "old" for a story which is about a 13 year old boy, but you forget that more and more. In fact, I afterwards quite liked the way he gave an individual tone to......more

Goodreads review by Deric on April 06, 2018

I loved the first two books of the trilogy but the the this book had a lot of things which was hard to swallow. The ending was kind of weird but complete and it was weird how easily they got the Salmon of Knowledge from the University.......more

Goodreads review by Jean on July 28, 2017

(Audible; Gerard Doyle, narrator) The final volume in the Lighthouse trilogy has more pep than the previous two volumes. I normally love Gerard Doyle as a narrator, but his efforts at American and even English accents fall flat and really damage the audio version of the series.......more

Goodreads review by JodiP on December 25, 2017

This was pretty much a perfect ending to the trilogy. The way the young people's relationships change seemed a natural outgrowth of what they'd experienced. We do get to find out who the Old Ones were, and the ending is very creative and satisfying.......more