In spring 1832, a young father named Coll Coyle faces ruin at the hands of a landowner's callous son across the windswept bogs of Donegal. Compelled to confront the threat to his life, Coll flees into the wild Irish landscape pursued by John Faller, a man bent on hunting him without mercy. Paul Lynch's novel traces a desperate chase through rain and mist as one man runs from everything he stands to lose.
