Based on a series of frank interviews with both the paramilitary leaders who lead loyalist strategy and the gunmen who carried out the bombings. There are also revealing interviews with loyalist and unionist politicians who operated the centre-stage. The loyalists believe it was their clinically targeted offensive against senior members of the IRA and Sinn Fein that brought the Republican Movement to the negotiating table and made the Good Friday agreement possible.
The book gives a gripping inside account of the thinking, strategies and ruthless violence of the paramilitaries. As John White - a member of the UFF who in 1973 stabbed Senator Paddy Wilson thirty times and slit his throat, and twenty-five years later was acting as a peace delegate - told Peter Taylor: "I was proud to enter Downing Street as a member of the UFF. It justified the nature of loyalist violence, that it was political not criminal."
