Orphan Johnny Dunne has fled Balbriggan, where he spied for the rebels
in Ireland's War of Independence. Now he has a new and even more
dangerous mission. Rebel leader Michael Collins engages in a cut-throat
secret war with British Intelligence: and Johnny, Ireland's youngest spy
at only fourteen years of age, finds himself at the centre of the
action. In a Dublin full of gunmen, soldiers, police informers and the
dreaded Black and Tans, Johnny has to watch his every move.
But it's hard to turn his back on the past, especially on his
friendships with Alice Goodman, and with Stella Radcliffe, the daughter
of a British officer, who risked her own life to save his.
As the War of Independence grows more lethal, the three friends must
decide where their loyalties lie. Then a secret from Johnny's past
changes everything...