The Sword of Erin, a renegade faction of the IRA, had gambled with the lifeblood of their own movement when they massacred federal agents in New York - and staged the escape of the group's leader William Connolly.

Connolly had been in prison for over a year and the movement had lost its momentum. But now he's free - committed to a gruesome wave of destruction. On the attack in Belfast, Mack Bolan speaks the only language the terrorists can understand: harassment and attrition.

In another holding action in his everlasting war against the savages, Bolan is about to remove the Sword of erin from his hit list... permanently.