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A Goodreads Choice Awards Nomination for Best History amp Biography

A raceagainsttheclock narrative that finally illuminates a historychanging event the IRAs attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed

A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 254 am on October 12 1984 It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton England Rooms were obliterated dozens of people wounded five killed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred had she been just a few feet in another direction flying tiles and masonry would have sliced her to ribbons As it was she survivedand history changed
There Will Be Fire is the gripping story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher in the most spectacular attack ever linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles Journalist Rory Carroll reveals the long road to Brighton the hideandseek between the IRA and British security services the planting of the bomb itself and the painstaking search for clues and suspects afterward
In There Will Be Fire Carroll draws on his own interviews and original reporting reveals new information and weaves together previously unconnected threads There Will Be Fire is journalistic nonfiction that reads like a thriller propelled by a countdown to detonation