Blood of Ulster

Belfast, May 1987. Sean Callahan, thirty-one years old, an IRA operative in the Catholic neighborhoods of Falls Road, learns that his older brother has been killed in the Loughgall ambush. Eight men. A probable betrayal. Someone talked.For the first time in his life, Sean does what the Callahans never do: he leaves. Boston, Massachusetts, through a quiet Irish-American network. A construction job. An apartment in the South End. Distance from everything he was.Then he meets Sarah Murphy — a nurse, hazel eyes, who doesn't ask questions she doesn't need answered.But in March 1988, his father and younger brother are killed in turn. On a road in Armagh. By the same hands that sold out Loughgall. And Sean Callahan crosses the Atlantic in the other direction.Blood of Ulster is a novel about loyalty and its limits, about what we inherit without choosing it, about how one life is betrayed in order to build another. It is also a love story — taut, quiet, built on two people who decide, against everything, to stay.Belfast. Boston. 1987–1988. A son. And what remains when everything else has been settled.