Watching the Door Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast

'Brilliant . . . Dark, witty, grin, caustic, despairing, wise, searingly honest and beautifully written . . . The best informed and most exciting personal account of the Troubles ever published.' Mail Sunday 'An essential part of the history of the Troubles. It is the most astonishing memoir of its kind that I have read in years, and must be read by anyone interested in the happenings of those terrible years in Belfast City'. JACK HIGGINS 'So remarkable that after finishing it you will find yourself casting the film that will surely get made . . . These are the Troubles as seen by someone who know the killers and the killed, and watched from the streets, the bars, and also the bedrooms, of Belfast . . . The result is a humour of a sort so edgy you will only have to come on it previously in the crime fiction of the great Elmore Leonard . . . I have never read a book like this.' Spectator 'A masterpiece . . . The bombings, the shootings, the beatings, the murderous prejudice of warring tribes separated by a few bricks: Myers spares nobody, least of all himself. Few books are as honest.' Daily Telegraph 'Raw and memorable . . . Watching the Door is a book that will be read after many others about that horrible turbulence fare forgotten.' TLS 'Kevin Myers has produced a book that I couldn't put down . . . Bad and bold and brilliant.' OLIVIA O'LEARY, The Irish Times