Unsure of his origins and betrayed in love, Theodore Shortcourse is on the run but saved from despair by his unquenchable spirit. The inseparable fates of Theo, his nemesis the corrupt politician Bain Cross, and Pax Sheeby - to Theo the moral guardian of his generation - illuminate the last decades of Irish history in a grand epic thriller. Overshadowing all three men, who grew up together in the close-knit community of Monument, is the powerful figure of Theo's mother who has been a victim of a crime that, even a generation later, no ones dares speak of.
