Summary

Chapter 13, “The Toy Salesman,” briefly details Brendan Hughes’ life after escaping from Long Kesh, when he lay low and continued to work for the Provos while living a double life as a man named Arthur McAllister. Pretending to be a toy salesman, Hughes and his contacts collected and tried to decode tapes of British officials’ phone calls with each other, but soon Hughes was arrested once more. While held captive, Special Branch operatives tried to get Hughes to become an informant for them, thinking him an invaluable tool in their fight against the IRA. Hughes refused.

In Chapter 14, “The Ultimate Weapon,” Keefe describes how Dolours and Marian, from prison, carried out their hunger strike until they succeeded in convincing minister Roy Jenkins to concede to their request to be transferred to prison in Ireland. At first, losing weight and strength rapidly and under...