Blood of Ulster

Belfast, 1987. The night his older brother is killed in the Loughgall ambush, Sean Callahan makes a decision the men in his family don't make: he leaves.

Boston offers what Belfast no longer can - anonymity, a new life, a woman who doesn't ask unnecessary questions. Her name is Sarah Murphy. But the dead don't stay where you leave them. In March 1988, his father and younger brother are killed on a road in Armagh. Someone inside the organization sold them out.

Sean crosses the Atlantic a second time.

What he's going to do in Belfast, he knows. What he'll find - the depth of the betrayal, the face of the man who handed over his family, and what it costs to settle accounts in a world where justice only exists outside the courts - he doesn't know yet.

Blood of Ulster is a novel about inherited loyalties and chosen lives. About men shaped by violence and men undone by it. About what remains, when everything is settled, of a son who wanted to be something other than his father.

Phil Morrison