"Michael Gleeson is a well-respected psychiatrist - a quiet man, a good friend, and a useless cook. As the son of a long-dead IRA man, he also spends part of his professional life secretly counseling former members of the disbanded organization. Michael always thought this would be enough to satisfy his heritage, but when the highly skilled yet deeply disturbed Turlough O'Sullivan enters his office, he sees an opportunity that the demons of his past won't let him overlook. But Michael's plan for a bloody retribution doesn't run smoothly: not only must he learn the truth about the role models who formed him as a child, but on his trail is a young detective at Scotland Yard, an officer obsessed with stopping the unknown serial killer who is out for an historical revenge that she can't understand."--Publisher's description.