[1] With this novel, the author achieved great sales and critical success and the translation rights were sold into 37 languages.

The novel chronicles the story of a former fighter for the independence of Ireland who, unmotivated by the events of the Western World, decides to escape from the society in which he lives.

He accepts a job offer as a weather official on a remote island in the south Atlantic close to the Antarctic Circle.

So the hero has to spend a night alone, where he suffers the attack of strange monsters that are similar to frogs.

Through his cunning he manages to stay in the lighthouse with Caffo, and thus he can withstand attacks from the big frogs.