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A Stone's Throw
A Stone’s Throw is the 2015 debut novel by British author Lee Watts.

Plot summary
Set mainly in Northern Ireland against the backdrop of the Troubles, the novel spans forty years and follows the lives of two men caught up in circumstances beyond their control, showing their gradual involvement, alienation and descent into violence. The themes of the book are the loss of innocence and morality, but also of reconciliation and ultimate redemption.

When Belfast erupts into violence in 1969 two teenagers from the same street find themselves on different sides, coming of age amidst gun battles and bombings that impact directly on their lives leaving them bitter and vengeful. As adults Roy Ferguson and Marty McKenna must commit themselves to the fight. Marty becomes a hardened and dangerous IRA gunman whilst Roy meanwhile has joined the Parachute Regiment. In 1982 both are sent away and experience the horror of full scale war, Roy in the Falklands and Marty on an arms buying mission in a besieged Beirut before coming home again to their own conflict.

Volunteering for an elite undercover unit, Roy soon discovers that in the murky world of secret intelligence, principles and people are equally expendable, leaving him with terrible moral dilemmas. How far will he go along with the icy machinations of his unit to beat the IRA? Marty is facing the same situation, having witnessed a new generation growing up amidst the violence and having taken part in the brutal murder of an innocent man, how far will he go to further the aims of the movement? As doubts arise in both men, events conspire to push them into a final show down. Author     Lee Watts Country    United Kingdom Language   English Genre      Novel Publisher  Amazon Published  September 2015 ISBN       9781517264925