Review of Someone Has To Pay
Written by Joe McCoubrey
Reviewed by R. Murry
Without prejudice, Mr. McCoubrey
weaves a thriller that a non-follower of the events that led up to peace in the
Isles of Ireland and Britain over separation can assimilate to. That
being the control over one’s own destiny and what one will pay for that freedom.
In this case, what will an Irishman pay for the right to be independent?
Joe McCoubrey, an Irishman, from the
town of Downpatrick, writes a tale of a high level British operation that is
used to propel the peace process forward by fending off the IRA’s activities
that are on a different level and are supposed to have the same effect.
On each side of the divide, a
champion has been picked - a man who gets the job done. These agents had
met once is part of this fast pace action drama and that fact is only known to
them. If and when these two meet again, is the secondary plot and is one
of the reasons the British agent got involved.
As the main plot thickens, the
general populous lives are disrupted with bombings, general killings, and
assassinations. Operational plans are made by both sides to capture
political sympathy for their cause – separation or not. When will the
conflict end is not part of Joe’s novel, only hope.
Both sides converge at an unlikely
place. All havoc commences and the reader is on pins and needles awaiting
the last shot to be made. And that shot is made thrice in a lethal
triangle shape leading to an ending the reader can live with after all the
political postulating that follows.
Mr. Joe McCoubrey has put together plausible events in down to
earth English we all can understand. Those
events could have helped lead both sides out of their turmoil. I was
convinced. However, it was fiction. Wasn’t it?
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