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1988
MI5 intelligence officer, Bertram Hastings is unconventional having not come through the Oxbridge route, but is an excellent field operative. Together with Captain Vernon Jackson - who has as many haters as admirers, but is known to get results - lead SAS Red Troop; a unit formed to take the fight to the terrorists in Ulster.
The Provisional IRA suffer severe financial setback at the hands of Red Troop, following a tip-off from America.
Meanwhile, women are being snatched off the streets of Dublin and dumped, bound and gagged, outside a Belfast police station. They are escapees from justice who were used by the IRA as ‘honeytraps’ to kill soldiers and policemen.
Loyalist UFF commander Billy Campbell is behind the extra-judicial extraditions, driven by a personal hatred of the honeytrap tactic. He is also hell-bent on escalating the sectarian war to unseen levels. The IRA are hell-bent on killing him.
Red Troop must stop this by getting to Campbell, but he is always one step ahead as he receives help from within the RUC.
Then a ghost from Jackson’s past threatens to disband Red Troop if they fail in their assignment.
In a race-against-time to stop PIRA and the UFF from escalating the conflict, Jackson and Hastings have to consider doing the unthinkable…
But will their audacious plan work? And at what price?
1984,
The Provisional IRA have attempted to kill the British Prime Minister and her Cabinet in Brighton.
Margaret Thatcher instructs the security services and Special Forces to work together to take the fight to the terrorists.
Red Troop of the SAS is formed. Led strategically and for intelligence by MI5’s Bertram Hastings, an unconventionally, but excellent field operative.
Operationally, the Troop is led by Captain Vernon Jackson who has as many detractors as supporters, but he gets things done. Assisted by a team of seasoned soldiers, Vernon gets to work.
He is tasked to identify and stop a Provisional IRA hardliner, Brendan Lynch, who is hell-bent on igniting a war to destroy all Loyalist Terrorists, and drive all Protestants out of Ulster.
A series of attacks take place, each more audacious than the last, with the final target so horrific, Lynch does not inform the IRA, for fear that they would try to stop him.
Hastings’s ace-in-pack is a top-level informer deep inside the Provisional IRA. Lynch discovers this and takes desperate measures to ‘out the tout’.
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