| Unsung Hero: How I Saved Dozens of Lives as a Secret Agent Inside the IRA Contributor(s): Fulton, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844545520 ISBN-13: 9781844545520 Publisher: John Blake OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Early on a Saturday morning in August 1998, a car was parked in Omagh's high street. By the afternoon, the pavements had filled with shoppers, and then explosives packed inside the vehicle detonated. It was the worst single atrocity of the Troubles--only it could have been avoided. Kevin Fulton had infiltrated the IRA. When news came to him of the planned attack, he handed the information on to his handlers, but it was ignored. This is just one of the revelations in this, the most significant book ever to be published about the ongoing war in Northern Ireland. "Unsung Hero" is a nail-biting, controversial and explosive book; it will profoundly change the way the Troubles are viewed, and it will cause a stir in the highest echelons of government. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Intelligence & Espionage - Political Science | Terrorism - True Crime | Espionage |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2009292434 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.45 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kevin Fulton is the only double agent to have infiltrated the upper echelons of the Provisional IRA. No known spy has spent longer within the organization or risen higher in its ranks. In order to maintain his cover within one of the world's most feared terrorist groups, Fulton was forced to take part in some of its crimes. So highly was he thought of by the IRA leaders that they made him a member of their feared internal policeironically, his job became to root out and kill informers. In 1994, Fulton was forced to flee Northern Ireland after one of his operations compromised his safety. He was abandoned by the security forces for whom he was working and now lives like a fugitive. But now he has fought back by doing what his military chiefs thought he would never be brave enough to do: go public with his story." |