Against the odds, Callahan matures from a teenage Belfast street thug and IRA killer to a happily married man and expectant father. Then tragically, fate snatches away his wife, his unborn child and his world in the flash of a tragic accident for which he feels responsible. Years later, just as he begins to find peace and serenity again as a monk in a rural Irish monastery, a vindictive superior banishes the handsome young man to a life in the priesthood at a derelict parish in New York City. Ripped away from his quiet and cloistered life, Father Callahan is plunged back into a dangerous cacophony of filth, corruption, temptation and crime. Readers will wonder if Father Callahan will have the strength to remain a good man or if he will return to the dark, criminal life he once knew so well.