Hiding in Maine. With Us. Red Hands

forces that brought about, and then destroyed, Ceausescu’s Romania. - D.D. JOHN S

Colin W. Sargent’s Red Hands

Red Hands is a deeply compelling tale of a woman caught inside the destruction of a regime. Iordana is a normal girl, brought up with all the perks of Romania’s corrupt communist regime. Then she falls in love and marries the eldest son of her parents’ arch-rival, Romania’s monstrous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. They become the inlaws from hell, but she brings them their only grandson. And then there’s the 1989 revolution, when crowds will kill anyone with the Ceausescu name. In all the blood and chaos, can Iordana keep her little son alive?

“Death to the Dracu grandson!”

In terror, Iordana Ceausescu of Romania disappeared in secret to Old Orchard Beach with her son while the world searched for them. She lived a buried life among us for fve years. Drawn from 800 hours of unique interviews with Iordana.

Drawn from eight hundred hours of unique interviews with Iordana Ceausescu, and told in her voice.

“an astounding account of the Romanian revolution in the voice of Ceausescu’s daughter-in-law.”

Martin Goodman in the Morning Star

“Brilliant. If the novel is Macbeth then it is Romeo and Juliet too, for the pounding heart of the book is a great love story that never fails to move. A tale from last century and a warning for this one, Red Hands is a novel of rare power that teaches us much about Romania and even more about ourselves.”

D.D. Johnston