A Secret Worth Killing For
Simon Berthon
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Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780008214388
Version: 2018-02-06
As a journalist, historian and documentary maker, SIMON BERTHON has long been fascinated by the secrecies, deceits and ambitions of the state. His previous books are Allies at War and Warlords (with Joanna Potts). A Secret Worth Killing For is his first novel.
For Penelope,
and for Helena and Olivia
Contents
July 1991
‘The movement needs your help.’ She’s lying next to him in Falls Park, the summer of 1991.