The Night Before • Tom Clarke

The fires of rebellion burn within his comrades; with him it is a white-hot furnace. Earlier in his life he returns from exile in the United States and joins an attempt to destroy London Bridge. Failing, he is sentenced by an Imperial court to imprisonment in England for as long as it pleases the representatives of the King. For most of the next fifteen years he is held in solitary confinement, subjected to extended periods of vile psychological and physical torture. When he is released, and returns to his homeland, he is determined to bring about a revolt that will settle matters once and for all. He loves his family beyond measure, but if he dies, so be it – he only fears failure and being returned to a cage.