‘Do we count you in?'When
Joe is reluctantly dragged into a deadly plot by rebellious convicts at
the Castle Hill prison farm on the outskirts of Sydney Town, he quickly
realises it does not pay to be their enemy. He has been quietly working
out his sentence as a shepherd boy, in the company of his friends,
Pat and Kitt-who has set her eye on Joshua Holt, son of the heroic
General of Wicklow.But the croppies are hard,
tough patriots of Ireland and desperate to revolt and Joe finds himself
amidst a desperate bid for freedom in the first convict uprising against
the colony of New South Wales.