In Northern Ireland, from the late 70s to the early 90s, the IRA killed over 40 alleged informers.

But the man who often found, tortured and sometimes killed these people on behalf of the IRA

was himself an informer, a secret British army agent with the codename Stakeknife.

Who gets to play God? And why me? Why my family?

When lies are still being told to this day, who do you believe?

I wouldn't even know where to start, and I'm with the IRA.

Steakknife.

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a real-life account of testing one's masculinity in the boxing ring, and a god of small things.

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collection The Good Immigrant and of Literary Journal The Good Journal,

and an author whose most recent novels are the one who wrote Destiny,

and for young adults, run riot.

And with Nikesh is Leonie Ross.

Her novels, All the Blood is Red and Orange Laughter,

were followed last year by the story collection,

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