There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780593419496)

**A Goodreads Choice Awards Nomination for Best History & Biography**

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A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA's attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed.

A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another direction, flying tiles and masonry would have sliced her to ribbons. As it was, she survived--and history changed.
There Will Be Fire is the gripping story of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Thatcher, in the most spectacular attack ever linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Journalist Rory Carroll reveals the long road to Brighton, the hide-and-seek between the IRA and British security services, the planting of the bomb itself, and the painstaking search for clues and suspects afterward.
In There Will Be Fire, Carroll draws on his own interviews and original reporting, reveals new information, and weaves together previously unconnected threads. There Will Be Fire is journalistic nonfiction that reads like a thriller, propelled by a countdown to detonation.

Author: Rory Carroll
ISBN-10: 0593419499
ISBN-13: 9780593419496
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.32w x 1.33d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2022 pg. 14
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2023
Shelf Awareness 04/07/2023