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T1 The kidnapping: a hostage, a desperate manhunt and a bloody rescue that shocked Ireland$dTommy Conlon, Ronan McGreevy
A1 Conlon, Tommy
A2 McGreevy, Ronan
LA English
PP London
PB Penguin Books
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1903202744
AB November 1983. The IRA has turned to kidnapping to fund its armed campaign in the north. The organisation has a supermarket boss in its sights - Quinnsworth chief executive, Don Tidey. As Tidey does the school run en route to his south Dublin office he pulls up at a garda checkpoint. Within moments he is dragged from his car, bundled into another car and driven away at speed. The 'gardaí' are terrorists in fake uniforms. The IRA has its latest victim. It is the start of a massive manhunt and a 23-day ordeal for Tidey. At the instant he is found, in an isolated Leitrim wood, his captors kill a trainee garda and a young soldier. After a tense stand-off with soldiers and gardaí and an exchange of fire, they escape and are never caught. It is, and will remain, the deadliest ever confrontation between the Irish security forces and the IRA
CN 364.15409415
SN 9781405959018
K1 Tidey, Don
K1 Provisional IRA
K1 Kidnapping : Ireland
K1 Kidnapping : Investigation : Ireland
K1 Enlèvement (Droit pénal) - Irlande
K1 True Crime
K1 Dublin : Irish Republican Army : Nordirlandkonflikt : Entführung : Terrorismus