Strength to the Strong Hand

About the Book

In 994 A.D. sixteen-year-old Conla O’Feargal is captured by Viking marauders and sold into slavery to a landholder in Iceland.

Five years later O’Feargal escapes and makes his way across the sea to Dublin. He is soon befriended by the Black Cloaks, a rebel band opposed to the Danes. O’Feargal proves to be a fierce warrior.

When the Black Cloaks become allied with the army of Brian Boru - the strong hand of Ireland - O’Feargal follows the great leader to Glen Mama, and takes part in a bloody battle that will change his life - and alter the course of Irish history - forever.

About the Author

Neil Martin was born in San Francisco, California in 1885. At an early age he became a merchant seaman and sailed to ports on six continents. In 1913 he left the sea and married Vivian Boster. They had two sons, Floyd and Ed. In the 1920’s he moved his family to Gulfport, Mississippi, where he lived for the remainder of his life. In the last half of that decade Neil began a career as a pulp fiction writer, and for the next twenty-five years sold almost two hundred stories to that market. Neil Martin passed away in 1963.