The Victim's Face

About the Book

December 1956. The IRA begins its Border Campaign in Northern Ireland. It trains raw recruits with veterans like Dan Keohane and explosives expert Francie Shaw. A sleeper inside the Northern Security Services provides intelligence, and agents abroad buy heavy weapons to tip the balance. Can the IRA be held back? Rory Vance, a young Donegal man in the Fermanagh RUC, finds his relationship with Áine, from across the border, severely tested by the conflict. Can it survive? The victims were not only soldiers and policemen. This novel closely follows the main facts of a neglected period of Irish Border history.

About the Author

Kenneth Dodds gained a degree in history at Leicester University and did research at Durham University. He taught history for twenty-nine years in six English and Scottish schools. His first book was a history of British influence in Central America. A member of the Donegal History Society, he has written articles for its annual journal. Visiting North West Ireland for the last eight years provided great pleasure and the background for two historical novels. This is his third. He lives in North Yorkshire but visits Spain and Mexico regularly to refresh his Spanish, which he used to teach to adults.