Phoenix, Policing the Shadows.

Special LOWER price - Summer Offer. A best seller since 1996. Reported as " the most balanced account of The troubles ever". Irish Times 1996. Now the 25th anniversary with almost 100,000 copies sold this reprinted, upgraded, story continues to intrigue and inform those who could never have conceived of such a life. 25 years after one of RAF's worst peace time aircraft accidents, this new paperback edition includes the final explosive New Bonus chapter 2012. It took 17 years for the Government turnaround in clearing the names of the pilots after a long campaign. The new final chapter updates the Counter Terrorist officer's life story and illustrates dubious Government Ethics both in matters of airworthiness for Military Aircraft and collusion with state media for damage limitation purposes.The life of an Irish policeman and his family who lived with friends from all sections of the community. A life full of danger but driven by love and loyalty to family and country. As renewed IRA assassinations are reported in Northern Ireland read how PHOENIX revealed for the first time how the undercover war of covert police and SAS operations was fought in an arena where the rules were made by doorstep assassins, booby-trap bombers and snipers in the shadows. It tells how the man responsible for almost wiping out the British cabinet was caught, how a deadly bombing campaign in Britain was frustrated and how the lives of many of those targeted for death by the IRA were saved through secret and often ruthless tactics. PHOENIX takes the reader behind the scenes of the secret negotiations which led to the IRA cease fire and uncovers some shocking details. When the huge helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre on a summer's evening in 1994, it claimed the lives of 25 top anti-terrorist officers, among whom was Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix, from the RUC counter terrorist surveillance unit. Phoenix had spent 25 years of his life in an undercover war against some of the most deadly terrorist organisations in the world. A war where heroes have no names and deeds that save hundreds of lives remain unrecorded. Until now. It exposes the struggle between the Northern Ireland Special Branch and MI5 for control of top secret information channels.PHOENIX is more than just a story of a shadowy war. It is an intimate portrait of an Irish man and his English wife, Susan, who came to Northern Ireland thinking she would be the wife of an ordinary bobby and instead found herself thrown into the mayhem of the troubles. Their relationship gives a personal background to the tale of terror and counter-terror where a rap on the door can mean death. It shows how love and real family life can sustain a man during a dangerous career.