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In this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA, Richard O’Rawe delivers the most definitive account yet of the Troubles’ most enigmatic, notorious and sinister figure, Freddie Scappaticci. Codenamed Stakeknife, from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003 he was…

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Rickie O'Rawe is a former member of the Provisional IRA's Belfast Brigade, and so a book by someone like him about British infiltration of his own organisation should have been fascinating stuff - and it was! So many books like this end up falling on one side of the fence or the other; i.e. they're either shameless romanticised paeans to dead republicans extolling their seemingly endless 'virtues', with meaningless evocations of tinkling streams and soft Irish mist with a sound track of a lonesome pipe or flute - heaven save us! Or they're from the other side where every republican…

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