<B>‘Truly terrific'</B> Richard Ford<BR/><B>'Dickens for the twenty-first century' </B>Roddy Doyle<BR/><B>'A powerful, gripping tale' </B><I>Sunday Times</I><BR/><BR/><BR/><B><I>A man hanging on by a thread. </I></B><BR/><B><I>A city about to snap.</I></B><BR/> <BR/> From the acclaimed author of <I>The North Water</I> comes an epic story of revenge and obsession.<BR/> <BR/><B>Manchester, </B><B>1867</B><BR/> <BR/><I>Two men, haunted by their pasts.</I><BR/><I>Driven by the need for justice.</I><BR/> <BR/><I>Blood begets blood. </I><BR/><I>In a fight for life and legacy.</I><BR/> <BR/><B>Stephen Doyle </B>arrives in Manchester from New York. He is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland, by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance.<BR/> <BR/><B>James O'Connor</B> has fled grief and