The Drumbeat of Jimmy Sands

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‘All the ingredients of a good thriller ... an imaginative blend of well-researched fact and well crafted fiction.’ Daily Mirror. A story of the hunter and hunted. Duggie Fife and Paddy O’Keefe are two sides of the same coin. Both soldiers, both brought up on the on city streets - one in Glasgow, one in Belfast. They are bound together by more than friendship when O’Keefe saves Fife’s life on a behind-the-lines operation during the Falklands War. But later, serving in Northern Ireland, fate will separate them. The two soldiers are now on opposing sides - and it can only be a fight to the death. The Drumbeat of Jimmy Sands is a relentlessly powerful and suspenseful novel. Recommended for fans of Stephen Leather, Chris Ryan and Jack Higgins. ‘Meticulously researched ... and exhilarating ... a formidable page-turner.’ Tribune. Murray Davies was born into a mining family in South Wales. He won a scholarship to UCW Aberystwyth where he studied International Politics, followed by an MA in First World War poetry. He worked for the Daily Mail and Mirror Group as a reporter and feature writer. After twenty years as a journalist, he became a novelist. Collaborator won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2003. His other works include Samson Option, The Devil’s Handshake and the Chalke and Cheese books, Welcome to Meantime and Bad Blood in Meantime.