TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carroll,Rory
TI  - There will be fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and two minutes that changed history 
SN  - 9780593419496
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York
PB  - G. P. Putnam's Sons
KW  - Thatcher, Margaret
KW  - Magee, Patrick,
KW  - Irish Republican Army
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - England
KW  - Brighton
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Attempted assassination
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1979-1997
KW  - Ireland
KW  - 1949-
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - 1968-1998
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-397); Prologue: Invisible Beings -- Part I Genesis of a plot. Mountbatten -- The friendly skies of South Armagh -- The chancer -- Hunger -- The England Department -- Part II Countdown. The bomb burglar and Mr. T -- Friends -- Rejoice -- Blackpool -- Salcey Forest -- Tightrope -- Room 629 -- Clockwork -- A white light -- Part III Manhunt. Wetting worms -- Hypothenar evidence -- Dublin -- London -- Glasgow -- Reckonings -- Epilogue
N2  - "A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA's attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed"--; "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 gripping story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher, in the most spectacular attack ever linked 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"--Dust jacket flap
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