About the book
Liam O'Flaherty in this novel returns to the period of the Civil War in Ireland. The story starts from a dramatic crisis brought about by the conflicting temperaments of Crosbie, the leader of the Republicans in a small town in County Kerry, and Tracy, second in command. Hating bloodshed and violence, Crosbie, once the hero of a hunger strike now finds his power over the men under his command in jeapardy, because he cannont bring himself to lead them in tactics against which every fiber of his being rebels...