The Black Sister is a novel about political intrigue involving a coup d'tat by government ministers, secret funding to create terrorist organizations, the activities of MI5, the British Secret Service, military raids for arms, and organized pogroms fueled by eight hundred years of conflict fought by the sons of settlers and the sons of the dispossessed. The book describes the traumatic political and military events in Ireland during 1969 and 1970. The first words of The Black Sister were written in Africa and later in United States and Europe.