Dimensions
111 x 178 x 29mm
The Secret War Against Terrorism in Northern Ireland
Updated with a new chapter
When the Chinook helicopter slammed into the side of the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, it claimed the lives of twenty-five top anti-terrorist intelligence officers, among whom was Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix. Head of the Northern Ireland police counter-surveillance unit, Phoenix had spent twenty-five years of his life in an undercover war against some of the most deadly terrorist organisations in the world. 'Phoenix' reveals for the first time how the war of convert police operations was fought in an arena of snipers and doorstep assassins. Yet it is also an intimate portrait of the remarkable love affair between an Irish man and his English wife and how they coped with the mayhem of the Troubles.
