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A review by jimbowen0306
Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour
challenging
sad
medium-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This work of fiction was first written in the mid-1970s, and is set in the Northern Ireland "Troubles" of that era, where Catholics were fighting Protestants, perceived injustices, the British Army, and for their Freedom. The Provisional IRA were developing an increasing array of activities, one of which was assassinations of senior British politicians.
The British government clearly can't have a terrorist organisation killing politicians, so they undertake a variety of activities against the Provisionals, one of which is putting a spy (called Harry, hence the book's title) into a Catholic area of Belfast, where they believe the killer was from. There then follows a game of cat-and-mouse between Harry, and the IRA.
The book is an easy, but engaging read. I'm not sure how accurate the Belfast of the era is (by the time I was aware of the "Troubles" they'd morphed into something else, and it's fiction after all), but I'm sure there's some elements of truth to what is described in the book.
The British government clearly can't have a terrorist organisation killing politicians, so they undertake a variety of activities against the Provisionals, one of which is putting a spy (called Harry, hence the book's title) into a Catholic area of Belfast, where they believe the killer was from. There then follows a game of cat-and-mouse between Harry, and the IRA.
The book is an easy, but engaging read. I'm not sure how accurate the Belfast of the era is (by the time I was aware of the "Troubles" they'd morphed into something else, and it's fiction after all), but I'm sure there's some elements of truth to what is described in the book.