The Emerald Hand

Forty-two years after escaping the Gorta Mor the whispers of their ancestors the fiercely independent O'Malleys still echo through the teeming streets of New York and the cobbled lanes of South Boston. Niamh a former gang matriarch built a quiet life but the city's pulse still thrums with unseen forces and old loyalties. Her brother Tommy known as The Brain navigates the treacherous underworld of Tammany Hall where power is bought with blood and votes. Meanwhile across the divide Captain James O'Reilly of the Boston police strives to maintain a fragile peace battling ambitious new faces who threaten to plunge the Irish enclaves into chaos. Honor family and the ghosts of the past collide in a story of two families forged by famine and defined by the fight for survival.