Book Review: Stakeknife's Dirty War - tales of collaboration and sacrificing of informers

"Richard O’Rawe’s book illustrates how, in the North, this callous attitude towards the lives of informers by the British security apparatus was widespread."

Alfredo 'Freddie' Scappaticci, codename 'Stakeknife' (circled) pictured at a republican funeral addressed by Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness in 1987 - and later exposed as the British Army's top mole inside the IRA.

• Stakeknife’s Dirty War
• Richard O’Rawe
• Merrion Press, €17.99