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12 reviews for:
Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Heroic True Story of a British Secret Agent Inside the IRA
Martin McGartland
3.82 AVERAGE
12 reviews for:
Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Heroic True Story of a British Secret Agent Inside the IRA
Martin McGartland
3.82 AVERAGE
dark
informative
tense
fast-paced
A very interesting read. Written in an easy to read manner, it explains the trials and tribulations of a man who risked his life each and every day for the betterment of Northern Ireland as a whole.
I am sure that there were other people who were in similar situations who would have reacted very differently and therefore there would have been a very different outcome.
I am sure that there were other people who were in similar situations who would have reacted very differently and therefore there would have been a very different outcome.
A very interesting read. Written in an easy to read manner, it explains the trials and tribulations of a man who risked his life each and every day for the betterment of Northern Ireland as a whole.
I am sure that there were other people who were in similar situations who would have reacted very differently and therefore there would have been a very different outcome.
I am sure that there were other people who were in similar situations who would have reacted very differently and therefore there would have been a very different outcome.
Dreadful writing and riddled with inconsistencies and exaggerations, to the point I doubted much of what was written.
challenging
informative
This is an open and honest account of life working as an informer for the Special Branch from it's start as a young Catholic boy taunting the RUC and the British Army to it's finish as a retired informer hiding from IRA execution squads on the Mainland. McGartland is honest about his views throughout and admits that his views have changed during his life following various events in Northern Ireland. He writes as he would speak, that is readable and more accessible than many of the texts on life for the ordinary person in the Province during the Troubles. McGartland doesn't take sides in his telling of the story, he merely states what he believed at the time and how this governed his actions for the benefit of his community and his country and in doing so he takes the reader on a journey of deceit, betrayal, hatred and violence from which no-one comes out on top.
An amazing true life account of a Special Branch member who is an IRA informant. This is fast paced and equally terrifying - how a young boy / man can get so dangerously involved so easily.
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Very readable book on a complex subject. I suggest the book first, then the movie. It was hard for me to empathize with someone who deceived friends and family. The book portrayed the IRA justifiably as a terrorist organization that killed innocents without regard but did a poor job of portraying the Brits. Let's remember the Brits were a foreign country occupying Ireland with it's own form of terrorism and force. Would England tolerate on occupation by Germany? The IRA existed because of British occupation.
Excellent
I wasn't sure whether this was going to interest me or not, but I thought that I would read it and see how it went. Wow! What a story! Very thought provoking indeed.
I wasn't sure whether this was going to interest me or not, but I thought that I would read it and see how it went. Wow! What a story! Very thought provoking indeed.