Shoot to Kill

1988

MI5 intelligence officer, Bertram Hastings is unconventional having not come through the Oxbridge route, but is an excellent field operative. Together with Captain Vernon Jackson - who has as many haters as admirers, but is known to get results - lead SAS Red Troop; a unit formed to take the fight to the terrorists in Ulster.

The Provisional IRA suffer severe financial setback at the hands of Red Troop, following a tip-off from America.

Meanwhile, women are being snatched off the streets of Dublin and dumped, bound and gagged, outside a Belfast police station. They are escapees from justice who were used by the IRA as ‘honeytraps’ to kill soldiers and policemen.

Loyalist UFF commander Billy Campbell is behind the extra-judicial extraditions, driven by a personal hatred of the honeytrap tactic. He is also hell-bent on escalating the sectarian war to unseen levels. The IRA are hell-bent on killing him.

Red Troop must stop this by getting to Campbell, but he is always one step ahead as he receives help from within the RUC.

Then a ghost from Jackson’s past threatens to disband Red Troop if they fail in their assignment.

In a race-against-time to stop PIRA and the UFF from escalating the conflict, Jackson and Hastings have to consider doing the unthinkable…
But will their audacious plan work? And at what price?