Angel Fire

Name: Angel Fire
Brand: Books In Motion
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Ron Franscell
ISBN: 9781614532330

Author: Ron Franscell

Narrator: Kent Kimball

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Books In Motion

Published: 09/15/2012

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

A modern classic that continues to gather a loyal readership, ANGEL FIRE is a haunting tale of two brothers on separate odysseys of self-discovery. Twenty-four years after war correspondent Daniel McLeod is killed in a Viet Cong ambush, his only brother C

About Ron Franscell

Ron Franscell is the author of numerous books, including Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived, Angel Fire, and The Deadline. His writing has been compared to Truman Capote, Charles Frazier, and Robert Olen Butler-diverse, poetic, evocative, and muscular. His writing has appeared in many publications, including the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been a guest on CNN, NPR, and other major broadcast outlets all over America. He appears regularly in crime documentaries on Investigation Discovery, History Channel, and A&E. Ron lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on July 16, 2012

A delightful comfortable read that contemplates poignant, not so easy, life lessons. The ending was the only viable course and I look forward to discussing it with my 15/16 year old students.......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on June 04, 2021

I didn’t choose this book because of its focus on another pair of brothers, Cassidy and Daniel, who grew up sons of a newspaperman in small-town Wyoming of the 1950s. The story looked interesting. And it is, dealing with the losses that deeply affected Cassidy and Daniel and shaped their interactions......more

Goodreads review by Beth on January 10, 2024

Novel that takes place during the Vietnam War. The author weaves together family, love and loyalty.......more

Goodreads review by JoAnne on March 19, 2011

Angel Fire by Ron Franscell is an absolutely gorgeous and haunting novel of family love and loyalty set in a small town in Wyoming in 1957. Cassidy McLeod puts his life on hold to care for his revered older brother when he returns from Vietnam all but catatonic. The author poignantly describes the p......more

Goodreads review by Jenn on January 11, 2015

Like many outstanding classic novels (and this one is destined to be one), Angel Fire merits more than a once through. Trying to live with the alarming, engrossing, yet realistic ending both appalls me and makes sense. I should not say I am surprised though, as those same adjectives describe Ron Fra......more