Born into the appalling deprivation of Nineteenth Century Ireland, Jess O'Hara
and his high-spirited sister, Karen, flee their impoverished homeland to seek
a new life in America.Exhausted after a nine-week crossing in an overcrowded, disease-ridden 'coffin
ship', they arrive in Pittsburgh - the tumultuous steel capital of the United States.
Surrounded by smoke and fire-belching chimneys, they struggle to adapt to this
alien world.At first resisting the tug of easy wealth, Jess forsakes his fellow immigrants and
bulldozes his way to fame and fortune, exploiting the love of two women to become
a financial tiger in a city where only the strong and ruthless prevail.
- ISBN10 0747408270
- ISBN13 9780747408277
- Publish Date 18 June 1992 (first published 1 February 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Macdonald & Co
- Imprint Sphere Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Language English