On the pages of the scripting novel, we are transported from the Smokey pubs of Dublin, where men argue eloquently but action has a final word, to the Irish countryside, where lonely roads become paths to the grave as fast as a rifle shot; from stately manors, where an ancient way of life is threatened, to the gleaming London Conference table, where men like Lloyd George and Winston Churchill play games of power, tainting the triumph of their Irish opponents; through the painful dilemmas and grievous losses of our men and women for whom old certainties have been splintered and new sides must be chosen. The End of The Hunt is fiction of a very high order. Brings us face to face with history as it was made, and life as it was given and lost.
 
As before, Flanagan brings to life a wide range of historical figures and fictional characters whose private lives are shaped by the public history that leaves no one untouched.