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

by Rory Carroll

the Troubles, that odd euphemism for sporadic killing,

The crisis had exposed a humbling truth about her policy on Northern Ireland. She didn’t have one.

It was a strange fellowship. A Belfast gunman turned accidental ambassador; an American mobster yearning for glory; an Arab autocrat in the market for terror; a renegade priest with a lethal vocation.