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Dead Ground: Infiltrating The Ira

This is the story of a man who spent eight years as an undercover police agent inside the IRA. The account he provides of life with the Provisionals is of a dark and claustrophobic world, of an iron grip which they hold over their own communities — a grip as tight and vicious as any Mafia stranglehold — and of a ruthless and cynical disregard for human life. Gilmour tells of corruption and double-standards that see young volunteers knee-capped for petty theft, while the high-ups steal with impunity; and of the life of a man trapped in no-man's-land, in a dirty war in which both the IRA and the security forces exploit children trapped in dead-end estates.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 401
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-7515-2621-9
  • EAN
  • 9780751526219
  • Genres
  • ireland
  • Release date
  • 1999