Two unlikely men meet in 1923 Ireland.Michael McCree seems to be a newspaperman, running from a past in Boston. He's a lover of men and a drinker of whiskey, and yet one with some surprising depths and one huge secret.Simon Hart is a surly, angry, altogether closeted and touch-me-not fellow, a Cambridge-educated private investigator whose business partner has been murdered. He meets Michael in a newspaper shop when turning in an obit notice.They clash. Fisticuffs fly. And before Simon knows what's happened, he's gained a new flat-mate, a new business partner, and a wanna-be lover. It's the "wanna-be" that drives the present story...and all that follow.