Mening vooraf:

Ik heb voor dit boek gekozen omdat een klasgenoot het mij aanbevool. Ik had het boek zelf thuis staan, maar was er nooit aan begonnen omdat ik er te weinig tijd voor had. Ik dacht dat het een moeilijk boek was, ik kende het namelijk niet en als je dan op de achterflap leest dat het over de IRA gaat dan ziet het er helemaal moeilijk uit. Maar toch ging ik voor dit boek.

Inhoud:

Michael leaves his hotel as usual and drives past Andrea, his secret lover. He promises her to join her soon. When he comes home he finds his cat dead in his front yard. Moira agrees with Michael to go and work in a shop of a close friend Peg. At the moment Michael wants to go to bed he sees a suspicious car in front of his house but ignores it and goes to bed.

The IRA brakes into their house and stay with them all night. Michael is able to see part of the face of one of the men when he smokes a cigarette. The next morning he is told to drive the car in front of his hotel and walk to the shop across the street. He knows there is a bomb n there but if he would not do as told his wife would be killed. He drives up the hotel and parks his car, walks to the shop and waits a few minutes. Then he runs to the back and phones the hotel and says that it should be evacuated immediately. The police and army arrive to deactivate the bomb. The bomb explodes before the military is able to do anything. He hurries home borrowing a car of one of his employees and finds out Moira is not dead. The police recommends him to move out of Belfast where he lives right now. He asks his boss for a transfer and it is accepted. Andrea passes by to see if he is all right and because Moira sleeps at her parents house Michael agrees to sleep with her that night in the hotel. The next morning he has breakfast with Andrea and Moira sees the two of them and he tells her about his relationship. He gets a call from his boss, the transfer is completed and he is able to come to London to become assistant manager of a big hotel. When he tries to call Moira to talk with her he finds out she is at the BBC station to give an interview on their experience. He drives over to talk to her but she is not willing to talk to him. Back at the hotel his father is waiting for him. He tells him about the bombing, his relationship with Andrea and his transfer to London. His father understands him completely and accepts it. The IRA calls and tells him they are getting too much publicity, he tells Moira but she ignores the treat. That evening he looks the news and...








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