The Serpent's Tail

They were recruited as police informers but they found themselves caught up in a much bigger operation...

An MI5 officer and an SAS major have devised a plan to outwit the IRA and at its centre are two young Belfast Catholics, Stephen Kirkpatrick and Michael McDonnell.

But how long will it be before they realise they are regarded as expendable? Unable to distinguish lies from reality, forced back on their own resources, they must learn to withstand the brutal interrogation techniques used by both sides in the war.

From the bestselling author of The Shankill Butchers and The Dirty War, The Serpent's Tail is a first novel, based on a true life sting involving the IRA, the SAS and MI5, with a gripping story of nightmarish intrigue where callous manipulation and brutality are set against a background of ordinary family life in Catholic West Belfast.