Teresa Moran: Soldier

Moran Family #4

by Ken Catran, Wendy Catran

Teresa is Jimmy Moran s daughter and, as with the other books, the story is divided into three parts, each with its foreword that launches into each episode and traces Teresa s life through the army. The first section covers the unmerciful training schedule and the experience of being a woman in a man s army. The bullying teaches Teresa to be tough and even violent. She s a bad girl. The second section covers her different experience in Afghanistan. Here, another part of Teresa begins to awaken. In the purity of the Moslem faith, she finds a key to her own Catholicism, confusing her. In the third section, set in Iraq after the fall of Saddam, Teresa is kidnapped and in return for her safety she talks to the charismatic leader of a terrorist group. For the first time she understands the story from the Moslem side. Would the West have allowed seven thousand Christians massacred in Serbia or a hundred thousand women and children killed in America or Britain by Iraqi sanctions? She questions the values of the Western one-way morality system. Turning her back on the Army, Teresa will no longer sing the song of war.

208 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2007

About the author

Ken Catran is a children's novelist and television screenwriter from New Zealand. He is the author of many teen novels, including Taken at the Flood, Voyage with Jason, Doomfire on Venus, Space Wolf, Talking to Blue and its sequel Blue Murder. He is perhaps best known for his Deepwater trilogy series