Together We Stand
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About the Book
This book is a historical drama beginning in Liverpool in 1911. It follows the lives of three children, Dave, 16, Sam, 14 and Mary Anne, aged 6. When Dave accidentally kills a man in self-defence while trying to steal a few bottles of whisky to sell for food, he is terrified of the consequences of his actions. He knows the friends of the man he killed will find him.
Badly injured after having his face slashed with a broken bottle, Dave was further traumatized when on arriving home he finds his mother dead. When he and Sam found the cache of guinea coins she secreted away for them, they knew they could get away. They chose America.
Gradually from small beginnings as bookies runners, they drift into a life of crime. With the introduction of prohibition, Sam and Dave become rumrunners and when with the help of a ship's captain and Albert Rothwell one of the richest men in America they acquire a distillery, their fortunes are made.
Their lives follow a path of revenge when Suzy, Sam's wife is murdered. But when Dave meets up with his past, life for the brother's take a horrific turn.
About the Author
The author was born in the county of Durham where she spent most of her teenage life until she joined the Royal Navy.
Her first step toward show business came as a Butlin Redcoat.
When she met and married her husband, they toured the world for next few years entertaining the troops all over the world until 1973 when she gave up the hectic life to have her son Ethan.
She went into retail and wholesale and when in 1991 communism fell she began exporting merchandise into the Balkan States and was delighted when her company reached 42 out of the top 100 North West companies.
Now, happily retired, she has finally found the time to write. Her home is in rural Lancashire, which she shares with her husband Tony, her son Ethan, (also in show business) and their two dogs Jake and Doogy. Since her Redcoat days she has used the name Rikki but has written this book under her given name M.W. Allen