Ireland, home of legendary poets and storytellers, has been wracked by bloody sectarian violence over the last quarter century. Bombs and guns were, and once again are, the primary negotiation tools used by Catholic and Protestant extremists in the conflict surrounding the sovereignty of Northern Ireland—the six counties known as Ulster. Patrick Taylor's Only Wounded centers on the hopes and despairs of everyday life during these new Troubles. New York Times bestselling author Patrick Taylor traces an intricate narrative path through Ulster, detailing sensitive, unbiased portraits of the ordinary—and not so ordinary—people caught in the partisan brutality of Northern Ireland.

An explosive novel set in 1974 Belfast! 1974, Belfast Northern Ireland. British army explosives expert Lieutenant Marcus Richardson gets one last infiltrate the Provisional IRA, a violent IRA offshoot, who has begun a campaign of terror in Ulster. But, as Richardson assumes the identity of a working-class Catholic and infiltrates the Belfast Provos, he finds that the conflict over Ulster may not be as black and white as it seems, and that duty can have vastly different meanings to different people.

Escaping the sectarian carnage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Fiona Kavanagh has found sanctuary in the cool peace of Vancouver. Or so she believes until news of the breakout at the Maze prison brings back the destructive passions she thought she'd left behind. The dazzling sequel to Pray for Us Sinners, Now and in the Hour of Our Death is a sprawling, fierce return to the world of Provo bomb-makers, the British agents stalking them and the bloody violence of Northern Ireland in the 1980s.