For Michael Dillon it is time to get away to live peacefully in England with the woman he loves. Unwillingly, he is caught up in the troubled politics of Northern Ireland, facing a moral dilemma when the IRA plants a bomb in his car and orders him to park it outside the hotel he manages.
From the moment Dillon decides to disobey the terrorists, the gripping story that unfolds keeps the reader in suspense. It is the story of the moral crisis of a man who is forced to make a decision which will put his life at risk.