A Force Like No Other: The Last Shift: The Final Selection of Real Stories from the Ruc Men and Women Who Policed the Troubles - Softcover

Colin Breen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780733313 ISBN 13: 9781780733319

Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

In this final part to his bestselling A Force Like No Other series, Colin Breen brings together more compelling insider stories from RUC officers who served during the Troubles.

 

‘A most powerful and unique insight into the world’s most dangerous job in policing in the 1970s and ’80s.’ Henry McDonald, Observer and Guardian

 

‘This book of real RUC insider anecdotes … has, of course, the best possible sources – the cops themselves.’ Hugh Jordan, Sunday World


 

‘A Force Like No Other recalls the horrors of the Troubles but also some of the funnier stories of everyday life as a cop.’ Stephen Gordon, Sunday Life

About this title

About the Author

COLIN BREEN is a freelance journalist, screenwriter and broadcaster. He has written extensively for the Belfast Telegraph, Sunday Life and Herald Dublin amongst others, and is a regular commentator on local and national radio, television and BBC World Service. The former businessman also served in the RUC, based in Belfast for over 14 years at the height of the Troubles. Having just finished a three-part crime drama set in Belfast due for national broadcast he is now working on two documentaries one of which is based in the United States.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780733313
• ISBN 13: 9781780733319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320