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Richard O'Rawe

Biography

Richard O'Rawe

Richard O'Rawe was born in Belfast. His first book, BLANKETMEN, published in 2005, was a political book about the 1981 IRA/INLA hunger strike and was an Irish bestseller. His second book, AFTERLIVES, was published in 2010. His third book, IN THE NAME OF THE SON, a biography of his lifelong friend, Gerry Conlon (of the Guildford Four), was published in 2017. The first two novels of his Ructions O'Hare series, NORTHERN HEIST and GOERING'S GOLD, were published in 2018 and 2022 respectively. He is currently working on his third novel of this series. His sixth book, STAKEKNIFE'S DIRTY WAR, another bestseller, was published in 2023. His latest book, WITCH HUNT, is the first collaboration with his daughter, Bernadette.

Richard O'Rawe

Books by Richard O'Rawe

Witch Hunt: A Grace O'Malley Thriller
by Richard O'Rawe and Bernadette O'Rawe - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Detective Superintendent Grace O’Malley of London’s Metropolitan Police receives a dubious phone call. A self-proclaimed witch hunter --- using the alias of Matthew Hopkins, the notorious 17th-century witchfinder general --- is leading her to his first victim. Someone is exploiting the bloody history of the witchfinder to start a modern-day witch hunt, making sure their debut murder of a TV medium is broadcast worldwide during Halloween night on Westminster Bridge. The clock is ticking for this high-profile case. Grace needs to find out who is behind the premeditated crime before the witch hunter can strike again. But the more she investigates, the more she finds herself in an intricate web of lies, deceit and threats --- a case even more complex and incredible than originally thought.

Goering's Gold: A Ructions O'Hare Novel
by Richard O'Rawe - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

When WWII ended, the allies discovered that a huge amount of gold bullion plundered by Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering had gone missing. Some believed the gold had been hidden in a train box car in Poland. Others that it was secreted in Lake Toplitz in the Austrian Alps. And a few thought it was buried in the Republic of Ireland, which was neutral during the war. When ex-IRA soldier Ructions O'Hare stumbles on a piece of Nazi memorabilia once owned by Goering, he begins to think that those who suspect the gold was in Ireland just might be on to something. But for Ructions to return to Ireland is easier said than done.

Northern Heist: A Ructions O'Hare Novel
by Richard O'Rawe - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Nobody robs banks in Belfast without the IRA getting a cut --- not even former Provo James “Ructions” O'Hare. But when word gets around that O'Hare may be up to something, the pressure from the IRA begins. Ructions trusts his crack squad of former paramilitary compadres, and has full confidence in his audacious plan: To literally empty the biggest bank in Belfast by kidnapping the families of two employees --- known as a "tiger" kidnapping --- in order to force them to help Ructions and his crew get into the bank's vault. But keeping the plan --- and the money --- from the IRA is another plan entirely, one requiring all of Ructions' cunning and skill.