Long before an unemployed Italian navigator sold his story and his services to an expansive Spanish queen, and rewarded her with the riches of a continent he claimed but never saw; long before a lone Portuguese priest stepped ashore in the flatlands and began the Europeanization of the Vietnamese; long before - there were the people of the clouds.
Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.
An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.
Days later he's dead. Suicide? Or did his past catch up with him?
Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead.
