A page-turning true story, "Ambush" details the forgotten saga of the only authorized attack by Irish Republican Army gunmen on American soil – the shooting of an informer who fled County Cork after getting six IRA men killed during the Irish War for Independence. In 1922, three of his former comrades tracked the informer, Cruxy O'Connor, to Manhattan and gunned him down before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers at 84th Street and Central Park West.

Called “a harrowing account of how the IRA came to NYC to get vengeance on a traitor” by The New York Daily News, the book tells the story of the Irish Revolution’s main battleground, Cork, and the role New York played in the struggle.

Along the way, it tells of a dinner laced with poison, a daring prison break, a boatload of tommy guns on the Hoboken waterfront, an unlikely pair of spies who fall in love, and an audacious assassination plot against the British Cabinet.

Mark Bulik is a longtime editor at the New York Times and the author of The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War, which was hailed by Dublin Review of Books as “a milestone study of the Irish in the hard coal fields” of Pennsylvania.
Signed copies of the book will be available for sale.