Murder by the Throat by Edward J. Bourke

David Lloyd George boasted that he had 'murder by the throat' in a speech in London in 1920 having swamped Ireland with troops, Black and Tans, Auxilliaries, assassins, and informants. Eighteen months later the British left Ireland defeated by the counter-espionage of the men and women in the shadows who exposed the under-cover agents, stalled their assassinations and broke their spy network. Edward J. Bourke, using information newly investigated, outlines for us a web of espionage, assassination, collaboration and execution in the Irish War of Independence, which can only now be understood.