Directive Sixteen

The Kiernans are a wealthy Catholic family, whose loyalties in the second world war have become hopelessly divided. Lord Dunkerry had married a German heiress before the Great War and their two sons have grown up bilingual. Elder boy, Mark, is a tearaway, who, having been expelled from Eton, drifted into the Spanish civil war on the side of the Falangists, emerging as a candidate for Hitler