COWBOYS AND INDIANS

RICHARD GRAINGER READS FROM HIS FORTHCOMING NOVEL:

COWBOYS AND INDIANS

Cowboys and Indians is a black comedy set in South Armagh during the Troubles. Double agent "Fishknife" has one final assignment to escape his past and pocket £5.5m

John Harris has unique skills. Aged 17 and disaffected with life, he opts for a career as an IRA terrorist. 

Diffident and cold, he soon becomes the perfect killing machine. Then he meets Ellen, the niece of the head of the PIRA and falls in love her. He is led to believe that she - and their child - were assassinated by Special Branch.

But when he finds out that he has been used and lied to, he becomes a double agent working for the MI6 sanctioned Force Research Unit.

Given the codename “Fishknife”; he becomes the harbinger for death and destruction across the province in a British Government sanctioned blood-fest.

But the Good Friday Agreement makes him redundant. He passes his time working as a Life Coach for former terrorists, writing erotic fiction under a pseudonym and his Saturday nights as a ‘70s disco DJ.

And then he receives the phone call he has been waiting for.

To claim the £5.5 million in a Gibraltar bank account, he must assassinate Sir John Stephenson, whose report is about to reveal who he is and expose the depths to which the British Government sunk during The Troubles.

Before, that is, they can assassinate him.

cowboys and indians by maverick writer