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Late one rainy night in London a bus is bombed; passengers are maimed and killed. What the police ultimately find leads them to murder, illegal arms sales, and defections from the provisional IRA. The reader finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into the tangled relationships of the "Provos." The clash of personalities amidst the ferment and contradictions of the IRA cause makes for absorbing reading.
When a policeman approaches the driver of a car that has stalled in a dingy back street, he is shot in the face. The detectives who hunt for the gunman are faced by an almost insoluble problem, for the crime seems motiveless.
1 TLS and 2 ALsS. Thanks Housman and his sister Clemence for their congratulations on the passage of a women's suffrage bill by the House of Lords. Recounts "another instance & the best of all, of [John Stuart] Mill's persuasive power as a speaker" in 1870, in which he convinced supporters of "the C.D. Acts" to declare themselves opponents.