A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil.
In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army-s top gunmen arrived in New York City seeking vengeance. Their target: -Cruxy- O-Connor, a young Irishman who kept switching sides as revolution swept his country in the wake of World War I. Cruxy-s last betrayal dealt a stunning blow to Ireland-s struggle for independence: Six of his IRA comrades were killed when he told police the location of their safe house outside Cork. A year later, the IRA gunned him down in a hail of bullets before a crowd of horrified New Yorkers at the corner of 84th Street and Central Park West.
Based primarily on first-hand accounts, most of them never before published, Ambush at Central Park is a cinematic exploration of the enigma of -Cruxy- O-Connor: Was he really a decorated war hero who became a spy for Britain? When he defected to the IRA, did his machine gun really j
