The Price

Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy key player in Britains emerging computer industry and newly married to Frances a much younger woman with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage Hell do anything to make them happy including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow where Frances grew up Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnappers demands but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue high finance and with the eyes of the media on them