Synopses & Reviews
During the miners' strike in the 1980s, a worker is killed in the striking coalfields of Wales. Some months later, a government minister thought to be connected with the death is also shot. Lewis Redfern—once a radical but now a political analyst and journalist—pursues the sniper, a lonely hunt that leads him through an imbroglio of civil service leaks to a secret organization: a source of insurrection far more powerful than anyone could have suspected known as the Volunteers. In this fast-paced narrative of espionage and intrigue, Redfern, through his obsessive pursuit of justice, finally encounters the truth about himself as the novel discusses the conflict between moral choice and political loyalty.
Review
"Every reader of the The Volunteers can testify to its power and pace as a detective thriller." —Tony Pinkey, author, Women in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot
About the Author
Raymond Williams was a cultural critic, commentator, and professor. He is the author of several books, including Border Country, The Country and the City, Culture and Society, Keywords, Loyalties, and People of the Black Mountains. Kim Howells is a British Labour Party politician as well as a former member of Parliament for Pontypridd, with previous ministerial positions for the Middle East in the Foreign Office and as Minister of State.