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In his first new book for HarperCollins, learn storyteller Jack Higgins shows all his traditional abilities in a heart-pounding experience with a less-familiar environment -- 19th-century rural Ireland -- and having a swashbuckling new idol. At the conclusion of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his dad has left him a house, simply to discover that Ireland is swept up in a civil war of its. The battle between your rich landlords and the impoverished tenant farmers keeps growing in strength, and having only shed and fought a dreadful battle, Clay really wants to steer clear of the coming turmoil. But after seeing the atrocities the landowners visit upon the folks, Clay is not able to uphold.