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Death on Gibraltar
SHAUN CLARKE
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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First published in Great Britain by 22 Books/Bloomsbury Publishing plc 1994
Copyright © Bloomsbury Publishing plc 1994
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Cover Photographs © Nik Keevil/Arcangel Images (man); Ulstein bild/Getty Images (street scene); Shutterstock.com (textures)
Shaun Clarke asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction based on a factual event. The real names of the three IRA terrorists shot dead on Gibraltar on 8 March 1988 have been retained, as have those of the eight IRA men killed at Loughgall, Northern Ireland, on 8 May the previous year. Many events are partially or wholly the work of the author’s imagination; all other names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are wholly the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to other actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008155308
Ebook Edition © December 2015 ISBN: 9780008155315
Version: 2015-10-29
Contents
OTHER TITLES IN THE SAS OPERATION SERIES
On the evening of Thursday 7 May 1987 fifteen soldiers from G Squadron, SAS, all dressed in standard DPM windproof, tight-weave cotton trousers and olive-green cotton battle smocks with British Army boots and maroon berets, were driven in four-wheel-drive Bedford lorries from their base at Stirling Lines, Hereford, to RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, where they boarded a Hercules C-130 transport plane.
The men were armed with L7A2 7.62mm general-purpose machine-guns (GPMGs), 7.62mm Heckler & Koch G3-A4K twenty-round assault rifles with LE1-100 laser sights, and 5.56mm M16 thirty-round Armalite rifles. They also had many attachments for the various weapons, including bipods, telescopic sights, night-vision aids, and M203 40mm grenade-launchers. The ubiquitous standard-issue 9mm Browning High Power handgun was holstered at each man’s hip. Their personal kit, including ammunition, water, rations,
