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"I clamor for the next installment of Richard O’Rawe’s rollicking series of heist novels featuring James ''Ructions'' O’Hare." — Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review

A fast-paced, suspenseful thriller based on one of the biggest (and still unsolved) bank-robberies in history, written by a former IRA bank robber.

Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut -- not even former Provo James ''Ructions'' O''Hare. But when word gets around O''Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins.

Ructions'' trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees - known as a "tiger" kidnapping -- in order to force them to help Ructions and his crew get into the bank''s vault.

But keeping the plan -- and the money -- from the IRA is another plan entirely, one requiring all Ruction''s cunning and skill.

In this stunning debut novel, as audacious and well-executed as Ructions'' plan to rob the National Bank itself, Richard O''Rawe -- a former IRA bank robber himself - unleashes a story that will shock, surprise and thrill as he takes you on a white-knuckle ride through Belfast''s criminal underbelly. Enter the deadly world of tiger kidnappings, kangaroo courts, money laundering, drug deals and double-crosses.

Northern Heist

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      Publisher: Melville House Publishing
      Publication Date: 15/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9781612199641, 978-1612199641
      ISBN10: 161219964X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "I clamor for the next installment of Richard O’Rawe’s rollicking series of heist novels featuring James ''Ructions'' O’Hare." — Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review

      A fast-paced, suspenseful thriller based on one of the biggest (and still unsolved) bank-robberies in history, written by a former IRA bank robber.

      Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut -- not even former Provo James ''Ructions'' O''Hare. But when word gets around O''Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins.

      Ructions'' trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees - known as a "tiger" kidnapping -- in order to force them to help Ructions and his crew get into the bank''s vault.

      But keeping the plan -- and the money -- from the IRA is another plan entirely, one requiring all Ruction''s cunning and skill.

      In this stunning debut novel, as audacious and well-executed as Ructions'' plan to rob the National Bank itself, Richard O''Rawe -- a former IRA bank robber himself - unleashes a story that will shock, surprise and thrill as he takes you on a white-knuckle ride through Belfast''s criminal underbelly. Enter the deadly world of tiger kidnappings, kangaroo courts, money laundering, drug deals and double-crosses.

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