Patrick Taylor

Recuperating in hospital from the effects of the detonation of a bomb he was trying to defuse Lieutenant Marcus Richardson wonders how to get out of explosives work with his dignity intact. Major John Smith appears with answer. A final undercover mission then an appointment to the elite SAS.

Moving into the Catholic Ghetto of the Falls Road Richardson assumes the identity of a Republican sympathizer with explosives expertise. He is soon introduced to Davy McCutcheon, IRA bomb maker.

As Richardson, constantly in peril of exposure and
immediate execution, gets to know the other side he finds that conflict in Ulster is not as black and white as it seems.

The story reaches its climax in a deserted farmhouse close to a bridge where Davy is has planted a bomb to assassinate the British Prime Minister and Marcus must somehow stop Davy.

Opinion:

Pray for Us Sinners is written with a heartfelt urgency to explain Ulster rather than demonize the place and the population. A deeply felt thriller and a very valuable one. John Doyle. Globe and Mail