Field of Blood - 1985

Summary
McAnally has sworn his oath to the IRA. But he quit and went south into the Republic, until they came for him, made him fire the deadly rocket launcher one last time. The he played his final card and most terrifying role - Supergrass.

Ferris, the young British lieutenant, hadn't wanted to join the Army. But a cruel twist of fate put him in the front line of a brutally tense war of nerves. He became the pawn in a game where the stakes were the entire command of the Belfast IRA.

For these two men, enmeshed in Ulster's centuries of turmoil this was to become their Field of Blood.

Extract
The Chief stood. Not fast, but deliberately. He came round the table. He moved very slowly. His eyes were fixed on McAnally's, he trapped the tout with his eyes. The 'tecs, McDonough and Astley, were shoulder to shoulder, and ready for him if he charged, and behind them was Rennie. He couldn't get to McAnally with his fists or his boots. He could reach the bastard only with his eyes and with his voice. He saw the fear spreading on McAnally's mouth.
"You're dead, Gingy, you're dead in the street, Gingy, before you get near a bloody court. Look at me, Gingy...you're dead before you'll spend the bloody money they're paying you."

Reviews
"The three British masters [of suspense] Graham Greene, Eric Ambler and John le Carre have been joined by a fourth - Gerald Seymour" NEW YORK TIMES

"Mr Seymour keeps all in doubt up to a sick-comic last gasp, street-wise with a difference" SUNDAY TIMES

"Action is what Mr Seymour does best...terse, clipped sometimes brutal...genuinely exciting" THE TIMES