Hungers strikers are dying and passions are high. Belfast, 1981. Young Thomas 'Tod' Malone is in awe of leading IRA fighter and recently-released politicial prisoner, Raymond Massey. Tod joins the IRA which is in a deadly war with British undercover soldiers and the RUC Special Branch as each side tries to outwith the other. 

The two IRA men's families- their partners Roisin and Sal- also bear the brunt of suffering: the military raids and arrests, the humiliations and abuse, and the social deprivation that comes with the sacrifice.

When IRA operations go wrong the organisation becomes convinced that there is a traitor in its ranks working for the enemy. But who? And why? And how? 

This is a riveting politicial thriller a out war, morality,love and deceit.