December 1956

The IRA begins its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland. It trains raw recruits with veterans like Dan Keohane and explosives expert Francie Shaw. A sleeper inside the Northern Security Services provides intelligence, and agents abroad buy heavy weapons to tip the balance. Can the IRA be held back?

Rory Vance, a young Donegal man in the Fermanagh RUC, finds his relationship with ine, from across the border, severely tested by the conflict. Can it survive?

The victims were not only soldiers and policemen. This novel closely follows the main facts of a neglected period of Irish Border history.