David Daunt had just been released from prison after serving nine years for the manslaughter of his cousin, Robin Daunt. When he reached his home town and reported to the police station with his parole paper, he was shocked to learn that his widowed mother had married his late father's brother - Robin's father! David didn't like any of the Daunts - there was bad blood in them all. He knew that danger awaited him at home...
Maurice Walsh was an Irish novelist best known for the short story The Quiet Man which was later made into an Oscar-winning movie directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Walsh was born in 1879 in Ballydonoghue near Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He was one of Ireland's best-selling authors in the 1930s.