The HONORABLE OUTSIDERS — John Higgins

In THE HONORABLE OUTSIDERS Jack Higgins offers up an intensely atmospheric tale set during the tense days in Spain in the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War. A short, stately coming-of-age novel, we see this era anew through the eyes of a young Cambridge-educated, emotionally repressed Irishman who arrives in Andalusia to tutor the young children of a large landowner, surrounded by a countryside seething with poverty but bound inextricably by tradition. The portrait Higgins paints of this society beginning to tear apart is exacting and unforgettable, as his hero finds himself caught up in the maelstrom and must confront his own core set of values and beliefs.