About the Author: Rory Carroll, currently the Guardian's chief Ireland correspondent, was a 12-year-old living in Dublin at the time and remembers the scenes in the aftermath of the Brighton bombing. The Irish government cracked down hard on the IRA but Irish courts were independent and unlikely to allow the extradition of a man accused of a political offence. In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll retraces the road to the infamous Brighton bombing in 1984 – an incident that shaped the political landscape in the UK for decades to come. A combination of repulsion at the conduct of British soldiers in Belfast, grievance at the sectarian state, and sheer boredom seems to have led him into a life of ‘armed struggle’, as the IRA termed its campaign.

Certainly, the main plot is the run-up to, and aftermath of, the bomb attack on the Grand Hotel Brighton in 1984, which was designed to kill Thatcher, ostensibly in revenge for her handling of the hunger strikes.Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. It was Adams who told Magee and others in Long Kesh that they could defeat the British if they built a political movement and retooled the IRA for a “long war”. A real example of how a seemingly unsolvable problem can be solved if there is enough will on both sides. In 2013 his first book, COMANDANTE: Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela (Penguin Press and Canongate) was published.

Carroll looks at the Brighton bombing in detail, following with an analysis of the scene, the aftermath and the manhunt to discover those who was responsible.Over the following days, he was visited by another man, most probably his accomplice in priming and concealing the device, and by two “elegantly dressed” female couriers, who delivered the bomb-making materials. A few hours later he sat with a pint of Guinness, feigning indifference as he watched reports on cable TV in a pub. He begins with the infamous execution of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 – for which the IRA took full responsibility – before tracing the rise of Margaret Thatcher, her response to the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland and the chain of events that culminated in the hunger strikes of 1981 and the death of 10 republican prisoners, including Bobby Sands. At its centre are three figures: the bomber, Patrick Magee; his target, the British prime minister; and, looming in the background, the ghostly figure of the republican icon , Bobby Sands.

There Will Be Fire is journalistic nonfiction that reads like a thriller, propelled by a countdown to detonation.The author details the lead up to, and the aftermath, of the Brighton bombing of 1984, where a serving British Prime Minister was very nearly assassinated. This way of framing the horror that descended in the middle of the night during the Tory party conference was cruelly dismissive of the terrible harm done to real human beings. In an interview in 2002, he said: “I regret that people were killed; I don’t regret the fact that I was involved in a struggle. Opening with a brilliantly-paced prologue that introduces bomber Patrick Magee in the build up to the incident, Carroll sets out to deftly explore the intrigue before and after the assassination attempt with the story spanning three continents, from pubs and palaces, safe houses and interrogation rooms, hotels and barracks.

Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The assassinations shortly before and after the 1979 general election of Airey Neave, probably her closest political friend, and of the war hero and British royal family relative Lord Mountbatten forced her to address for the first time the decade-old Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’. Killing Thatcher is even-handed, never shying away from the conditions and deprivations that led young men like the Brighton bomber Patrick Magee to sign up to kill. BestsellerAs taut as a fictional thriller Mail on Sunday Gripping, detailed and richly layered GuardianKILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.He deftly maps out the wider context of the dogged and bloody conflict, as well as bringing to life the high stakes cat-and-mouse game between the IRA and British security forces. For the most part, though, he concentrates on the period after 1979 – the year in which Thatcher was elected and the IRA assassinated Lord Mountbatten (a great-grandson of Queen Victoria who had been viceroy of India) with a bomb placed on his fishing boat, which also killed three other people, two of them children. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll retraces the road to the infamous Brighton bombing in 1984 - an incident that shaped the political landscape in the UK for decades to come. Understandably, Norman Tebbit never forgave the IRA but he was, beneath the carefully cultivated displays of thuggery, a subtle man and he did not try to impede the moves that the Thatcher government made towards an Anglo-Irish agreement, which, in turn, laid the way for a kind of peace settlement in the 1990s.