Ulster’s deadly web

Robert Hutton

IMAGINE YOU ARE AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER, trying to penetrate a terrorist group. The good news is that you have managed to recruit someone on the inside, persuading them to work for you with a mix of blackmail and bribes. But now they’ve told you they’re under orders to commit a crime. Do you pull them out or turn a blind eye? How bad a crime is too bad? That is the dilemma explored in this gripping and beautifully written book: what if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer? What if one of the people he killed as he tried to protect his own secret was another British agent? The story of the British agent Stakeknife isn’t new. Indeed, it’s the subject…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2024

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