Sean Rogan was a big man. Big and strong and gentle and kind. But if there was one thing he despised it was cowardice. So that when his fight for Irish freedom involved him with a pack of weak-livered criminals, his loyalty to the cause was sorely tested.

          Rogan was a simple man, but he knew enough to realise that he had been trapped. On the one hand was an ageing, almost mythical freedom-fighter – a hero in the past, but a patriotic wreck in the present. And on the other was a beautiful girl whose sexual fascination was to prove as powerful a motive in Rogan’s life as his political ideals…