Henry Page, the owner of "The Northern Light", the oldest and the most respected newspaper in Tynecastle, is offered a vast sum to turn over control to a mass-circulation group based in London. He refuses - despite entreaties by his wife to accept - and so begins his fight with the Chronicle, an almust defunct newspaper in the same area which is given new life by London thinking and London men...
Master story-teller A.J.Cronin here gives us a story in the great tradition of "The Citadel".