© Cappelen Damm, 2011
This is the third volume in the Henry Smart trilogy and opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of John Ford's film The Quiet Man, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous director himself, 'Pappy', who in a series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. Ten years later, Henry is in Dublin, working in Rathleen as a school caretaker, nicknamed 'Hoppy Henry' by the boys on account of his wooden leg. When he is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind. He finds himself a hero: the old IRA veteran who's lost his leg to a UVF bomb. Wheeled out by the Provos, Henry is to find he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy ...
Jonathan Cape 2010
Translated into: Danish, Norwegian
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