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A tale inspired by the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing assassination attempt on the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet is told from the perspectives of an IRA bomb maker, a former star athlete-turned-hotel manager, and the manager's teenage daughter. In September 1984, a bomb was planted at the Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Brighton, England, set to explode in twenty-four days when the British prime minister and her entire cabinet would be staying there. Weaving together fact and fiction, the story switches among the perspectives of Dan, a young IRA explosives expert; Moose, a former…
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Editions
7 editions- Audiobook · English · 2021Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781665151184
- Paperback · English · 2017Vintage · 336 pages · 9781101873328
- Hardcover · English · 2016William Heinemann Ltd · 321 pages · 9780434023370
- Other · English · 2016Penguin Random House · 384 pages · 9780099592280
- Other · English · 2016571 pages · 9781410489128
- Other · English · 2016Knopf · 321 pages · 9781101874592
Fiction, suspenseNorthern ireland, fictionEngland, fictionFiction, historicalNew York Times reviewedFiction, historical, generalAssassination attempt, 1984Fiction
