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  • Fishers of Men

  • The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland
  • Written by: Rob Lewis
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Fishers of Men

Written by: Rob Lewis
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Publisher's Summary

Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the British Army's most clandestine unit. It tells the unique story, through Rob Lewis' own extraordinary experiences, of an essential instrument in the fight against terrorism, that of covert intelligence gathering. The men and women who work in this field are a special breed who undertake hazardous risks with unflinching tenacity and professionalism - the price of negligence is high and the need for secrecy must be preserved even at the expense of personal relationships.

The sheer determination and single-mindedness required to achieve selection to this secret world is graphically described, as well as how, against seemingly impossible odds, the operators of the FRU managed to persuade terrorists and their close associates to turn informer. The methods the unit used to target, recruit and handle their contacts, how they protected their informants and the terrifying life their agents led are all told by an agent handler, using many of his cases to illustrate the sharpness, intelligence (and sense of humour) essential to the job.

Fishers of Men fills a gap in the available information about the secret war against terrorism in Northern Ireland. It is a gap that has so far remained largely unexplored - until Rob Lewis' informative and explosive audiobook.

©2020 Rob Lewis (P)2020 Bonnier Books UK

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Great emotive reading. Super story. A bit of the technical details (but not really) and lots of the personal side. Great read.

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  • 2022-03-10

Anti climatic poorly narrated account of what was probably a great story

Firstly, the narration sounds like it was auto generated by software. Dreadful.
The book starts off well but I got the sense that so much of the real events were redacted that the end product was tedious and anti climatic. There are much better, more exciting accounts of the green slime in NI than this book. Give it a miss.

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