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There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Name: There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History
Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons
SKU: 9780593419496
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Contributors:

Rory Carroll

Publisher:

G.P. Putnam's Sons

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

True Crime, History

Book Subcategory:

Organized Crime, Europe, Historical

Book Topic:

Ireland

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Release Date:

2023-04-04

ISBN 13:

9780593419496

Weight:

1.33 lbs

Size:

9.38 x 6.32 x 1.33 inches

Pages:

416

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**A Goodreads Choice Awards Nomination for Best History & Biography**

**An NPR Book We Love**

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.
In There Will Be Fire, Carroll draws on his own interviews and original reporting, reveals new information, and weaves together previously unconnected threads. There Will Be Fire is journalistic nonfiction that reads like a thriller, propelled by a countdown to detonation.

About the Author
Rory Carroll is a veteran journalist who started his career in Northern Ireland. As a foreign correspondent for the Guardian, he reported from the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, Latin American, and the United States. His first book, Comandante: Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, was named an Economist Book of the Year and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. He is now based in his native Dublin as the Guardian's Ireland correspondent.