Dead Ground

Infiltrating the IRA

Autor*innen

• Raymond Gilmour

Parameter

• 401 Seiten
• 15 Lesestunden

• Belletristik
• Irische Literatur
• Irland
• Nordirland

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This is the story of a man who spent eight years as an undercover police agent inside the IRA. The account he provides of life with the Provisionals is of a dark and claustrophobic world, of an iron grip which they hold over their own communities - a grip as tight and vicious as any Mafia stranglehold - and of a ruthless and cynical disregard for human life. Gilmour tells of corruption and double-standards that see young volunteers knee-capped for petty theft, while the high-ups steal with impunity; and of the life of a man trapped in no-man's-land, in a dirty war in which both the IRA and the security forces exploit children trapped in dead-end estates.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Einband: Paperback