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Fifty Dead Men Walking by Martin McGartland
4.0

It was a very pedestrian, but quite interesting look at what being a double agent would have been like in Belfast during the Troubles. Martin's prose is very straight forward, but prettying it up would have taken from the narrative and from the inner workings and day to day jobs he undertook.

He doesn't shy away from explaining his reasons and why he decided to play both sides and it is a snapshot of what was happening during that time. It is a snapshot of one time and one place and it kept me interested to finish the book quite quickly.