The edge of lost : [a novel]
(Book)

On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guards only daughter one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island has gone missing. Tending the wardens greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girls whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the searchs outcome. Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles away, a young boy named Shanley Keagan ekes out a living as an aspiring vaudevillian in Dublin pubs. Talented and shrewd, Shan dreams of shedding his dingy existence and finding his real father in America. The chance finally comes to cross the Atlantic, but when tragedy strikes, Shan must summon all his ingenuity to forge a new life in a volatile and foreign world.