On the morning of Saturday, April 22, 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son. Cobain documents the hours leading up to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and rebellion surrounding it.
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