Set against the backdrop of Belfast and Dublin, this debut novel immerses readers in a gripping tale of crime involving tiger kidnappings, money laundering, and the dark allure of greed. The narrative follows a daring plan to rob the National Bank, revealing the intertwining lives of supermodels and criminals. Based on true events from 2004, the story respects the real individuals involved by altering names while delivering a thrilling and shocking account of ambition and its consequences in the criminal underworld.
Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984.From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for British intelligence. At the same time, he took up a leading role in a newly formed IRA Internal Security Unit (ISU), aka ' The Nutting Squad' . He personally executed two suspected informers and condemned at least thirty-seven more to death.Was he the serial killer that history portrays him? Undoubtedly. But it' s not that simple, because every time he passed the death penalty on an informer, he told his British intelligence handlers about the intended execution, giving them the opportunity to prevent the killing.Did the tasking and co-ordinating group, the primary British intelligence organisation in Northern Ireland during the troubles, aid and abet the IRA in the mass-murder of British citizens? That is the question Richard O' Rawe poses in Stakeknife' s Dirty War.
Stumbling on a piece of Nazi memorabilia once owned by Goering, bank robber Ructions O'Hare looks into rumors that plundered Nazi gold might actually be hidden in Ireland and races to find it before his adversaries
