A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another direction, flying tiles and masonry would have sliced her to ribbons. As it was, she survived--and history changed. There Will Be Fire is the story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher, in an attack llinked to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Journalist Rory Carroll reveals the long road to Brighton, the hide-and-seek between the IRA and British security services, the planting of the bomb itself, and the painstaking search for clues and suspects afterward.
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ISBN:9780593419496
ISBN:0593419499
Physical Description:xii, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm print
Publisher:New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2023]
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-397).
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Invisible Beings -- Mountbatten -- The Friendly Skies of South Armagh -- The Chancer -- Hunger -- The England Department -- The Bomb Burglar and Mr. T -- Friends -- Rejoice -- Blackpool -- Salcey Forest -- Tightrope -- Room 629 -- Clockwork -- A White Light -- Wetting Worms -- Hypothenar Evidence -- Dublin -- London -- Glasgow -- Reckonings.
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