Updated / Sunday, 7 Mar 2021
10:00
Ciaran McMenamin s compelling tale alternates between the World War 1 battlefields of France and the Irish border in 1922 (Pic: Michael Shelford)
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Harvill Secker, Trade paperback, hardback
Childhood friendships strained by enforced absence and a broken promise, the limits of personal loyalty, a cat and mouse chase with a bitter nemesis and the impact of war are the key elements in Ciarán McMenamin s latest novel.
Francie Leonard is a living contradiction, a Catholic who fought for Britain in the 36th Ulster Division on the fields of France. A man who, within six years, was fighting against the Empire with the IRA on the newly created Irish border. He is being hunted with ferocity by his former commanding officer Crozier, now leading a force of The Specials.
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