HOSTAGE. Notorious Irish Kidnappings

Author: Howard (Paul)
Year: 2004
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
First Edition
Edition Details: 1st edn.
Book Condition: F.
ISBN: 9780862787691
Price: £5.00
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Paperback. Inside accounts of Ireland's most famous abduction cases. When bank jobs became too risky and art heists came to nothing, the IRA hit on a simpler and more profitable way of making money: kidnapping. Pick the right target, assemble the right team and it was like winning the Lotto. Except that it didn't work out that way. The author reveals the stories behind the abductions : Shergar - the full transcripts of the negotiations for the Epsom Derby winner. Ben Dunne - Fr. Dermond McCarthy tells for the first time the astonishing story of his meeting with the IRA on the border and his bid to get his friend released. Dr. Tiede Herrema - talks of the relationship he built with his kidnapper, Eddie Gallagher, and his bitterness over the deal that was never honoured. Lord & Lady Donoughmore - the peer's unpublished diary of their kidnap ordeal, and why his son believes he never gave the police the full facts. Don Tidey - an IRA source reveals serious doubts about the kidnapping, and the price the organisation paid for its failure. The book also covers the tragic death of hostage Thomas Niedermayer, and how the Gardai foiled the attempt to kidnap billionaire Galen Weston. Illus. + Bibliog. 253pp. paperback. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.

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