ABOUT
THE BOOK

July 1985. Ten Protestant and ten Catholic teenagers are sent to the home of Happy Days, Milwaukee, U.S.A as part of the month-long peace initiative, Project Ulster.
The Project goes wrong from the start because one of the teenagers is not simply the angst-ridden, 14-year-old Heavy Metal fan he appears to be. Wil Carson lives a secret life as a Loyalist terrorist and peace is the last thing on his mind… That is, until he meets Teresa, a bewitching Irish girl who makes him believe that the American Dream, where everyone can live together, might be possible. But when Teresa breaks Wil’s heart, old grievances resurface. Egged on by his host family’s son, the gun-mad Derry, Wil soon resorts to his old ways. Everything turns into ‘Nightmare on Elmstreet’ as events spiral out of control and teenage angst turns into headline news and bloody revenge.