Book review: Population of Northern Ireland failed by politicians

It is a sad commentary on the level of violence that has taken place in Ulster since 1969 that people are only vaguely familiar with the kidnapping and murder of Thomas Niedermayer

Author David Blake Knox uses the Niedermayer story to vent his own frustrations with the awful period of the Troubles.

• Face Down: The Disappearance of Thomas Niedermayer 
• David Blake Knox 
• New Island Books, €16.95