McAllister hoped that the pressures bearing down on his opponent would cause him to make further mistakes...but there was no denying that he had never experienced such numbing helpless fear. John McAllister's visit to the Burren combined a call on old friends with a series of lectures he was to give on the local flora. Nothing could have prepared him however, for the whirlwind of inexplicable events which would engulf him and howl across the Burren, from Ballyvaughan and Black Head to Lisdoonvarna and Ennis, from Gregans Castle Hotel to the Aillwee Caves. Surprises abound and a sense of foreboding is never far away.