The debut novel from Joseph O’Loughlin
Gallagher’s Prize
An Historical Adventure Novel in the Age of Sail
At the start of the 19th century, British global military power oppressed, outgunned and eventually invaded the young United States during the War of 1812. It took ships, guns and a fierce desire for freedom for American sailors to prevail.
Many of these men were not even Americans, including Jack Gallagher.
Gallagher’s Prize begins in Ireland, when English law breaks up an Irish Catholic family’s farm and a young Jack Gallagher longs for the sea. His adventures take him to England, Dublin, Tenerife, Recife, Boston and New Orleans as he learns to become a sailor at war, makes friends and enemies, and comes into his own.
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about
Joseph O’Loughlin
Joe O’Loughlin is an author living close by his beloved Pacific Ocean in San Diego, California. He joined the U.S. Navy as a young man and spent several years at sea in the early 1970’s as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, where he came to love ships and the sea and visited many ports of call. Later, he joined the volunteer crew of the Star of India square sailing ship, and qualified to work aloft as a topman. He loves fiction writing, history, literature, movies and the outdoors.
