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  • Fishers of Men

  • The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland
  • By: Rob Lewis
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (1,233 ratings)

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Fishers of Men

By: Rob Lewis
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Summary

Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the British Army's most clandestine unit. It tells the unique story, through Rob Lewis' own extraordinary experiences, of an essential instrument in the fight against terrorism, that of covert intelligence gathering. The men and women who work in this field are a special breed who undertake hazardous risks with unflinching tenacity and professionalism - the price of negligence is high and the need for secrecy must be preserved even at the expense of personal relationships.

The sheer determination and single-mindedness required to achieve selection to this secret world is graphically described, as well as how, against seemingly impossible odds, the operators of the FRU managed to persuade terrorists and their close associates to turn informer. The methods the unit used to target, recruit and handle their contacts, how they protected their informants and the terrifying life their agents led are all told by an agent handler, using many of his cases to illustrate the sharpness, intelligence (and sense of humour) essential to the job.

Fishers of Men fills a gap in the available information about the secret war against terrorism in Northern Ireland. It is a gap that has so far remained largely unexplored - until Rob Lewis' informative and explosive audiobook.

©2020 Rob Lewis (P)2020 Bonnier Books UK
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you speak for yourself mate

There’s a great deal of pot and kettle about this book. Talk about arrogance. if this book was submitted to the mod then I pity the poor officer that had to read this arrogant schmuck’s account. Personally, i doubt that all of it was, either that or they don’t care that kind of example to the public their soldiery represents. The book is interesting, the author is just a crass ignorant moron that delights in telling us that he’s a thief and that he relishes the idea of faking what for some is a deadly illness to get away with his own crimes. Fortunately, that’s not all there is to be book. It’s not a good read at all but it is very well performed I will say that. I remember reading a reviewer’s observations on Joey Barton’s autobiography and while i have not read it myself, judging by those observations i’d say this book is very like that one so, if you didn’t like Barton’s book then you surely will not like this one.

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dissapointed

lacking great substance.
The story was like a build up to something and that something never happened.

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Not very exciting listen

Was pretty boring to be honest. I was hoping for a little more regarding undercover intelligence operations and anecdotes. Too much of the authors background for my liking.

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Interesting Tale

Lots of detail especially around authors life and selection for special duties. A few more operational tales would have been good.

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Great book

loved this book very insightful of the troubles in Northern Ireland and what the British forces had to injure

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Great insight to the troubles in NI

Well written book by someone on the ground helping to fight terrorism. interesting and good narrator

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Gutted at the end

I thought the services looked out for their own - I found story fascinating, but horrified by way Rob was just sent on his way without ceremony, rather than being reintegrated with his regiment. Bit of a kick in the face after all he had risked.

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Enjoyable listen

I enjoyed it, insightful and kept me interested all the way through out the book.

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A fun government account with everything you'd expect to not be included

The personal account of an all round career in the army during the troubles, this book is a roughly chronological collection of anecdotes. As a personal account is is less comprehensive than other books on the troubles and FRU. As a book written pseudonymously in 1999, with an author very much under the control of the UK Ministry of Defence there is a notable absence of certain key events which the author is known to have been involved in. For anyone academically interested in the troubles there are far better books. It is passable as a decent, quick spy thriller.
Only if you can get past the narrator's atrocious prononciation of Irish words however.

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