The past has a way of catching up with all men and in April 1995 it explodes back into Harry Ballantine's life, twenty years after he thought it had gone forever. Three men break into his home and take his wife, Freya as a hostage. They have an offer for their old IRA comrade - the sort of offer that cannot be refused if his love and he are to survive. They want him to commit a foul act of murder - one that has the potential to fatally derail the burgeoning Irish peace process and send the island of Ireland spiralling into a new cycle of violence.