Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
- Mark Twain

The Bleeding Hills - A Novel by Wilfried F. Voss

Yes, the storyline of my book “The Bleeding Hills” is being repeated by reality. Well, just a little bit…

At the beginning of this month (March 2009) I had just finished the third chapter of my novel and let me quote an unedited excerpt:
“The leader of the conspiray is a former member of the Provisional IRA, who, until recently, had never been identified. In recent years the subject initiated contacts with another Irish terrorist organization, the so-called Real IRA.”

On March 11, the Online version of the German Newspaper “Spiegel” (the German equivalent of Time magazine) published an interview with the former IRA commander Tommy McKearney. Asked about the recent violence in Northern Ireland he said (The article is in German and I am trying to translate to the best of my abilities): “I believe, that lately a handful of people with a deadly competence joined the IRA splinter groups. In this case we are not talking about newcomers, but about experienced fighters, who had remained inactive for many years.”

In my novel I write about Finn Whelan, a former fighter for the Provisional-IRA, who was inactive for the past twenty years and who, according to MI5 reports, recently has provided the Real IRA with monetary and logistics support.

It seems that the idea behind my storyline is compliant with the reality in Northern Ireland.

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