Book Review: Mick Clifford looks at 'Killing Thatcher' - a chilling account of the IRA's manhunt

"Killing Thatcher is even-handed, never shying away from the conditions and deprivations that led young men like the Brighton bomber Patrick Magee to sign up to kill."

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher looking pensive at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

• Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
• Rory Carroll
• Harper Collins, hb £25