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(More customer reviews)O'Reiley's Island tells the story of young Thomas O'Reiley's escape from a crime he's not really sure he committed. What he is sure of is he is poor and police are in pursuit. The setting is at first turn of the 20th century San Francisco where teen-aged O'Reiley and his mother struggle to survive. Thomas has to run for it when it appears he is involved in a murder. He ships out aboard an ill-fated cargo vessel and winds up a sole survivor on an uninhabited island. How Thomas conquers his fears and adapts to his surroundings makes an interesting and educational read. While this book is cleaver and clean enough for juvenile readers, it will hold the interest of adults as well. Though this story has a happy ending and the epilogue has a "and he lived happily ever after" summary, we should hear more from this interesting character.
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Thomas O'Reiley is nineteen years old when he is accused of murder and flees for his life from San Francisco in the late eighteen-hundreds. Seeking refuge on a merchant sailing ship laden with cargo and bound for Australia, he is toughened to this new life at sea among the best and the worst of seamen and the awesome beauty and fury of nature. Existence as he has known it ends when he finds himself alone on an isolated island in the South Pacific. Days and weeks and months become years as his survival depends upon emergent courage and resourcefulness as well as the gradually awakening desire to reconcile his life in San Francisco and perhaps return to the young woman he barely knows. But the risks he faces are formidable as thousands of miles of open sea separate him from his ultimate destination.O'Reiley's Island is an account of courageous personal initiative, self awakening and determination as young O'Reiley faces the ghosts of his past and the awful uncertainty of his future—the hangman's noose.
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