Some members worried killing Thatcher would leave them forever hunted—prey for the British agents and Special Air Service squads tasked with finding and possibly executing them. “Shot while resisting arrest,” as the official report would put it. Of course, there were even worse fates. Leaders of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot were hanged, cut down while still conscious, castrated, disemboweled, and quartered, with their heads put on spikes outside the House of Lords. And their bomb didn’t even go off. But if the IRA’s bomb exploded, if the operation succeeded, the reward would be incalculable: Maggie
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