Excellent, exciting and moving
Dublin, March 1937. Holland, an idealistic young IRA recruit, is offered a strange assignment. He is told to guard and spy on a sinister Hungarian businessman and Sabine his secretary - a Jewish refugee.
The mission tests Holland's loyalties and his idealism to the utmost and ends with a sordid shooting match in a field in England. Holland finds himself fleeing with Sabine into the depths of the Irish countryside, where treacherous swamps and dense woods protect them from their pursuers. An intense love affair between two young people from vastly different worlds suddenly becomes possible.
But Holland's closest friend in the Movement knows his mind too well, and seeks him out, leading to a confrontation as fateful and tragic as any Irish myth'.
I love this book. It's exciting and you get the feeling that you're right there, in the thirties Dublin and in rural Ireland, with main characters that you fully believe. The love story is very moving and there surely is a touch of myth in this impressive literary work. I hope that it'll soon be adapted to the screen. It would make a wonderful film.
