On the morning of Saturday 22 April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son.
Award-winning journalist Ian Cobain, author of Anatomy of a Killing, will examine the hours leading up to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and rebellion surrounding it. Drawing on interviews with those most closely involved, as well as court files, police notes, military intelligence reports, IRA strategy papers, memoirs and government records, he will provide a unique perspective on the Troubles, and a revelatory work of investigative journalism.
