’RUTHLESSLY IMPOSED SUSPENSE’ The Times

’ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR’ Washington Post

As the distrust, betrayal and terror that pervade 1970s Northern Ireland threaten to boil over into a full-scale civil war, British Intelligence make a last, desperate play for peace.

Harry Finn, an Englishman in Belfast secretly working for the British government, is sent to destroy a Protestant extremist leader, James Kilshaw.

But the ancient hatreds which inflame Catholics and Protestants soon engulf Finn. He is a man in the middle - useful to all sides but also expendable.

Gradually Finn becomes aware that he is acting out a part in a drama where morality has no role, truth has little meaning, and human life counts for nothing.

And as the threat of war draws closer with each passing hour, Harry Finn realises that it is he, the outsider, who must stage the drama’s ending if he is to stay alive.

PRAISE FOR PETER DRISCOLL AND IN CONNECTION WITH KILSHAW:

’A wonderfully fast-paced narrative that literally has you holding your breath... a brilliant edge-of-the-seat novel’ Ken Bruen

’One of the world’s best thriller writers’ Irish Independent

’Memorably vivid situations... brutal journalistic instinct for the hot spot’ The Times

’Fast... and wholly entertaining’ The Guardian

’Outstanding’ Birmingham Evening Mail

’Driscoll is a find... He is a crafty, expert, spell-making writer’ Cincinnati Post

’He writes with utter fluency’ New York Times

’Immediately takes his place with such masters of suspense and excitement as Alistair MacLean and Frederick Forsyth’Denver Post

’Beats le Carré and the rest at their own game’ New York Magazine

’He weaves a tight drama of suspense and adventure around an existing social-political situation’St. Louis Post-Dispatch