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"A stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was...
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Following the explosion of an IRA bomb on board the Barrington's flagship MV Buckinghorn, Emma Clifton must deal with the repercussions on her family's shipping business. Meanwhile her old adversary, Lady Virginia Fenwick, plots her downfall. Bestselling novelist Harry, Emma's husband, is on a mission to free a fellow author imprisoned in Siberia, even if it costs him everything. Giles, his brother-in-law, a minister of the Crown, faces his own problems...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption, terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for journalist Allie Burns, bad news provides an opportunity to escape...
4) Northern spy
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English
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"A producer at the Belfast bureau of the BBC, Tessa is at work one day when the news of another raid comes on the air. The IRA may have gone underground after the Good Friday agreement, but they never really went away, and lately, bomb threats, arms drops, and helicopters floating ominously over the city have become features of everyday life. As the anchor requests the public's help in locating those responsible for this latest raid--a robbery at...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut--not even former Provo James 'Ructions' O'Hare. But when word gets around O'Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins. Ructions trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees--known as a 'tiger' kidnapping--in order to force...
6) Good Friday
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Zaffre Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 408 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"March, 1976. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe. Minutes before a deadly tube station blast, Detective Constable Jane Tennison spots the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is nevertheless a key witness. As they battle to unmask the terrorists, the police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Hundreds of detectives and their partners will be there--Jane among...
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Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"It's 1950s Boston and the Irish Republican Army is running guns and killing witnesses. . . . When a body is discovered at the Charlestown locks -- tarred and feathered -- it appears to be a gangland killing. However, Boston PD detective Owen Mackey recognizes the murder style as the IRA's typical retribution against informers. Combined with a tip-off about a boat coming into Boston with stolen guns and ammunition, the body in the locks hints that...
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Pub. Date
2001
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376 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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Get tangled up again in a story of danger that is complicated by desire in this classic romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
Moira Kelly has come home to Boston to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at the family pub, but soon confronts an undercurrent of danger as talk turns to politics. She's caught in the clash between the convictions of her new boyfriend and the anger of her old flame, who is unexpectedly in town....
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Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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After twenty-five years of vicious conflict, the IRA and the British have agreed to an uneasy ceasefire as a first step towards lasting peace. But, faced with the prospect that decades of savage violence and loss have led only to smiles and handshakes, those on the ground in the border country question whether it really is time to pull back--or quite the opposite. When an IRA man's wife turns informer, he and his brother gather their comrades for...
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Pub. Date
2002
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402 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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The Rogue Warrior is back in another fast-paced, furious, in-your-face adventure! This time he's on the hunt for a high-tech army that smashed the Good Friday Peace Accord and killed a half dozen American and British CEOs. Launched by two self-financed, new-generation terrorists, this murderous wing of the IRA has an even bigger assault planned -- one that promises to stun the world. Now, along with a special ops team made up of Brits, SEALs, spies,...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA's attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed"--
"A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime...
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Set in London in the '70s, our two protagonists, Max and Natalie, meet under unusual circumstances. He recruits her, trains her, falls in love with her and sends her almost to her death on a disastrous mission in East Berlin. In an attempt to win her back, Max leaves MI5 and promises her a more settled future in his newly formed detective agency, but they are soon drawn back into the world of spying and come again under the control of Max's overbearing...
16) The devil's own
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Irish-American cop unknowingly brings in an IRA terrorist and tries to stop him before he destroys any more lives.
18) Hostile intent
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Series
Matt Drake novel volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"When a mysterious walk-in to the US embassy in Vienna claims to have critical information about a Russian intelligence operation, he raises eyebrows. But when he asks for Matt Drake by name and calls himself the Irishman, he gets the DIA's premier case officer on a one-way flight. Matt arrives to find Austria's charming capital lousy with intelligence officers, all swirling around Nolan Burke--a onetime member of the real IRA. But before Matt can...
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Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the background and development of the conflict between the Irish Republican Army fighting for the Catholics in Ireland and the British government forces supporting the Irish Protestants.
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Series
Alex King volume 3
Publisher
AP Bateman
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Days before the Good Friday Peace Agreement an IRA splinter cell plans a major heist on the British mainland forcing a newly released prisoner to crack just one more safe. Career criminal Simon Grant wants to go straight. He wants to win back his wife and see his son, but he knows that his chances of getting away from the Irishmen are slim. He doesnt know that MI6 have him under surveillance, nor that Alex King has been given his first mission--to...