"It was the charismatic Bobby Sands, who died a prisoner on a hunger strike in the infamous detention camp of Long Kesh from which Sands was elected, against all odds, to the British parliament who became for Feehan and his Southern Irish conscience 'a kind of moral catalyst.' With measured polemic, he here makes understandable a people's plight and the betrayal of realpolitik on all sides". -- Publishers Weekly.