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  • Published: 30 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405959018
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Kidnapping

A hostage, a desperate manhunt and a bloody rescue that shocked Ireland




The sensational true story of one of Ireland's most dramatic abductions

November 1983. As top supermarket executive Don Tidey sets out on the school run, he is snatched from his car and driven away at speed. The IRA, using kidnapping to fund its armed campaign, has its latest victim.

What follows is a massive manhunt and, twenty-three days later, a chaotic rescue in a Leitrim wood. No one emerges unscathed – not the man at the centre of the drama, not the local community, not the police, not the Irish state. And especially not the families of the soldier and the young police officer killed as Tidey is freed.

Powerful, intimate and searching, The Kidnapping is a brilliantly reported account of an iconic episode and the shadow it still casts.

  • Published: 30 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781405959018
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

Praise for The Kidnapping

Vivid . . . [shows] a deep understanding . . . insightful and emotional

Sunday Independent

A fascinating read

Northern Sound Radio

An important reminder of our imperfect, contentious past

Irish Times
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