Big boys' rules: the secret struggle against the IRA
- London: Faber and Faber, 1992
- 266p.
This book covers the period 1976-87, suggesting that covert operations were unknown before 1976 or ceased since 1987. Detailed and authentic account to date of the deadly dilemma faced by special forces fighting an intelligence war within the United Kingdom. The Northern Ireland conflict in which SAS men, intelligence officers and senior decision-makers describe their attitudes to the risks of their work in Ulster to the death of IRA members to the use of deception to protect intelligence sources and the moral dilemmas surrounding the exploitation of information.