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KILLER IN CLOWNTOWN. Joe Doherty, the IRA and the Special Relationship.

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Killer in Clowntown is about the life of career IRA-man Joe Doherty. Doherty joined the IRA's youth organization as a teenager and then was recruited into the IRA after being 'vetted' ....i.e. after serving time in prison and keeping his mouth shut. He later became infamous as a member of an IRA team that used an M-60 machine-gun to ambush British military patrols. After being sent to prison again...this time for a long time...he staged a daring prison break and escaped from one of the most secure prisons in Northern Ireland. He later fled to the U.S. where the British government pressured New York City lawyers to extradite him back to Britain.

If you have not read any of Martin Dillon's books on The Troubles, this is one of his 'standard' stories. Standard in that it reads like a novel, has unique personal accounts of the actors involved, and makes one wonder how Dillon was able to get such detailed information about the events. Simply top notch like the rest of his works.