Variety says there's no network attached yet, so the series will be produced before it finds a home on TV. His love, his drive for revenge and his very desire to exist are fatefully challenged on the eve and the day of September 11. In that year he warily falls in love with Delfina, a streetwise Dominican ('That was the curse attached to the gift: You buried everyone you loved'), and comes into contact with a descendant of the Earl of Warren, the newspaper publisher Willie Warren. What follows is a portrait of the 'city of memory of which Cormac was the only citizen.' Cormac fights in the American Revolution, sups with Boss Tweed (in a very sympathetic portrait) and lives into the New York of 2001.

His recovery takes a miraculous turn when Kongo's dead priestess, Tomora, appears and grants Cormac eternal life and youth-so long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan, thus the 'Forever' of the title. Cormac saves Kongo from death, but is shot in the process. After the rising is quelled, mobs take to the streets and Kongo is seized. On board ship, Cormac befriends African slave Kongo, and once in New York, the two join a rebellion against the British. Seeking to avenge the murder of his father by the Earl of Warren, he follows the trail of the earl to New York City.

The year is 1741 and this is the story of Cormac O'Connor-'Irish, and a Jew'-who grows up in Ireland under English Protestant rule and is secretly schooled in Gaelic religion, myth and language. Forever is fueled by the cruel dictates of history - corruption, exploitation, murder - but it wholeheartedly celebrates human goodness at every turn.For those interested in details, here's a synopsis courtesy of Publishers Weekly (via Amazon): 'A grand, dark, swashbuckling, yet essentially simple tale about a man's lifelong journey from revenge to mercy, hate to love.'- Jodi Daynard, Boston Globe Cormac O'Connor plays a role in a slave revolt, the American Revolution, and the great fire of 1835.O'Connor thinks, 'No many people know anything about their own past and New Yorkers are the most amnesiac of all.' Forever should change that.'- Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today 'New York grows from a village-with wolves stalking its forests - in a town and eventually a city. At the same time it is a serious look at what makes a city more than just bricks and mortar.'- Tom Walker, Denver Post

'A swashbuckling, ribald tale told with flair and, sometimes, unbridled emotion. Forever is old-fashioned storytelling at a gallop.'- Washington Post Book World

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