THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Book ID/图书代码： 05B09622

English Summary/英文概要： New York based reporter, Walter Ellis grew up in East Belfast. His father was a commercial traveller, his mother a housewife. He and his sister were not abused as children. Ellis was never forced to wear girls’ clothes or spend days naked in a cold cellar. Instead, he was sent to school each week and to church on Sundays. But, as if anticipating this memoir, Ellis was determined that he should not suffer from the crippling disadvantage of a happy childhood. Systematically, he set about destroying everything that gave him stability. He got expelled from school and dropped out of two universities. He then entered a career in journalism that, after a promising start and a decade of genuine achievement, came shuddering to a halt when he was sued by his own editor. Later, he was sacked on a whim by the media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who had previously warned him ‘not to rob me blind’. Overshadowing all of this was his long, disturbed friendship with Ronnie Bunting, the Protestant renegade who led the INLA in Belfast and presided over the team that blew up the Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in the car park of the House of Commons. Ronnie was a powerful, demonic personality who ‘possessed’ Ellis from an early age. He once foisted Joe McCann, Ireland’s Most Wanted man, on Ellis’s mum for the weekend and gave Walter a suitcase to look after that turned out to contain the proceeds of an armed robbery. Ronnie subsequently died in a hail of bullets and THE BEGINNING OF THE END tells the remarkable story of how the author survived this friendship. Walter Ellis’s memoir is sure to shock, disturb and intrigue.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 纽约记者Walter Ellis在东贝尔法斯特长大。他的父亲是位旅行推销员，妈妈是位家庭主妇。他和妹妹从小都没受到虐待，Ellis没被强迫穿女生的衣服或者赤裸裸地待在冰冷的地窖好几天。他到是每周都被送到学校里接受学习，还按时做礼拜。但Ellis还是决心不被幸福童年的种种束缚折磨，他开始系统性地摧毁所有给他带来稳定感的东西。之后他被学校赶了出来，还从两所大学中辍学。之后他进入了新闻业，刚刚踏入这个行当，他干的相当不错，十年的闯荡，成就非凡，然而就在他事业登峰造极的时候，他的编辑把他告上了法庭，于是原来干的如火如荼的事业戛然而止了。没多久早就警告过Ellis不要视我为不存在的大老板媒体大亨Robert Maxwell一时兴致居然把他给开除了。而这一切要是和Ellis与Ronnie Bunting的那段漫长而曲折的友谊相比的话，那可都不算什么呀。Ronnie是新教归依徒，率领爱尔兰全国解放军（INLA），还组织了一队人马在下议院的车库里把北爱尔兰的影子国务卿给活活炸死了。Ronnie是个相当可怕的人物，Ellis很小的时候，就开始被他摆布了。他还曾经硬是让Ellis的母亲和Joe McCann这位全爱尔兰头号通缉犯共度周末，还把一只装满了武装抢劫案中劫得的收益的箱子交给Ellis照看。Ronnie后来还是没逃脱惨死的结局，倒在了一阵枪林弹雨的血泊中，而《终点的开始》就讲述了作者是如何走出这段友谊的。他的这本回忆录定会让大家震惊、不安，吸引您的眼球。

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