Hunger strikers are dying and passions arehigh. Belfast, 1981. Young Thomas ‘Tod’ Malone is in awe of leading IRA fighter andrecently-released political prisoner,Raymond Massey. Tod joins the IRA which isin a deadly war with British undercoversoldiers and the RUC Special Branch aseach side tries to outwit the other. The two IRA men’s families – their partnersRoisin and Sal – also bear the brunt ofsuffering: the military raids and arrests, thehumiliations and abuse, and the socialdeprivation that comes with sacrifice. When IRA operations go wrong theorganisation becomes convinced that thereis a traitor in its ranks working for theenemy. But who? And why? And how? This is a riveting political thriller about war,morality, love and deceit.
