‘The Irish War contains much vivid detail to surprise, bewilder, amaze and shock. Strange stories of ‘look-alike holidays’, ‘freds’, forensic detective work. IRA countermeasures, and an intelligence system whose mysteries multiply in a world of its own, abound’

Robert Kee, Spectator Books of the year

‘A well-observed account of a largely visible British war machine coping with the horrors of the Northern Ireland Troubles in the same theatre… readable and disturbing’

Cal McCrystal Guardian