Summary

In Chapter 14, Campbell looked out of the window of his newly- assigned flat near Queens College. He had been working as an undercover agent for the last fifteen years, having been recruited out of the Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment when he was twenty- two. He had been living and working in Belfast for the larger part of the last eighteen years. He noted how Belfast, rather than developing as a city, had instead “grown fat, learning to mask its scars when necessary and show them when advantageous” (107). He dumped the contents of his bag on the bed and found his old insignia from the Black Watch. He recalled his recruitment at the age of twenty- three for the Fourteen Intelligence Company (a clandestine branch of the SAS).

The recruiters had been impressed with his intelligence and capacity for violence. He had only...