he gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.

Rory Carroll, currently the Guardian’s chief Ireland correspondent. Rory has had a long and highly successful career as a foreign correspondent reporting from Belfast, London, Baghdad during and after the American invasion, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Los Angeles.