Fishers of Men cover art

Fishers of Men

The Gripping True Story of a British Undercover Agent in Northern Ireland

Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Fishers of Men

By: Rob Lewis
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £29.99

Buy Now for £29.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Fishers of Men is the true account of secret operations in Northern Ireland carried out by the British Army's most clandestine unit. It tells the unique story, through Rob Lewis' own extraordinary experiences, of an essential instrument in the fight against terrorism, that of covert intelligence gathering. The men and women who work in this field are a special breed who undertake hazardous risks with unflinching tenacity and professionalism - the price of negligence is high and the need for secrecy must be preserved even at the expense of personal relationships.

The sheer determination and single-mindedness required to achieve selection to this secret world is graphically described, as well as how, against seemingly impossible odds, the operators of the FRU managed to persuade terrorists and their close associates to turn informer. The methods the unit used to target, recruit and handle their contacts, how they protected their informants and the terrifying life their agents led are all told by an agent handler, using many of his cases to illustrate the sharpness, intelligence (and sense of humour) essential to the job.

Fishers of Men fills a gap in the available information about the secret war against terrorism in Northern Ireland. It is a gap that has so far remained largely unexplored - until Rob Lewis' informative and explosive audiobook.

©2020 Rob Lewis (P)2020 Bonnier Books UK
Espionage Freedom & Security Military & War Politics & Government True Crime Exciting Thought-Provoking Military Northern Ireland British Crime

Listeners also enjoyed...

Like No Other Soldier cover art
The Operators cover art
Undercover War cover art
Double Agent cover art
The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London, Second Edition cover art
MRF Shadow Troop cover art
Stakeknife's Dirty War cover art
Thatcher's Spy cover art
Rough Beast cover art
Bandit Country cover art
Secret Victory cover art
First into Action cover art
Killing Zone cover art
The Craft We Chose: My Life in the CIA cover art
Carl Frampton cover art
Agents Unknown cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Well presented excellent drama and suspense
Couldn’t put the book down

Wish there were more book of this genre

Excellent read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

There’s a great deal of pot and kettle about this book. Talk about arrogance. if this book was submitted to the mod then I pity the poor officer that had to read this arrogant schmuck’s account. Personally, i doubt that all of it was, either that or they don’t care that kind of example to the public their soldiery represents. The book is interesting, the author is just a crass ignorant moron that delights in telling us that he’s a thief and that he relishes the idea of faking what for some is a deadly illness to get away with his own crimes. Fortunately, that’s not all there is to be book. It’s not a good read at all but it is very well performed I will say that. I remember reading a reviewer’s observations on Joey Barton’s autobiography and while i have not read it myself, judging by those observations i’d say this book is very like that one so, if you didn’t like Barton’s book then you surely will not like this one.

you speak for yourself mate

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

lacking great substance.
The story was like a build up to something and that something never happened.

dissapointed

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Was pretty boring to be honest. I was hoping for a little more regarding undercover intelligence operations and anecdotes. Too much of the authors background for my liking.

Not very exciting listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Lots of detail especially around authors life and selection for special duties. A few more operational tales would have been good.

Interesting Tale

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

loved this book very insightful of the troubles in Northern Ireland and what the British forces had to injure

Great book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Well written book by someone on the ground helping to fight terrorism. interesting and good narrator

Great insight to the troubles in NI

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I thought the services looked out for their own - I found story fascinating, but horrified by way Rob was just sent on his way without ceremony, rather than being reintegrated with his regiment. Bit of a kick in the face after all he had risked.

Gutted at the end

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I enjoyed it, insightful and kept me interested all the way through out the book.

Enjoyable listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

The personal account of an all round career in the army during the troubles, this book is a roughly chronological collection of anecdotes. As a personal account is is less comprehensive than other books on the troubles and FRU. As a book written pseudonymously in 1999, with an author very much under the control of the UK Ministry of Defence there is a notable absence of certain key events which the author is known to have been involved in. For anyone academically interested in the troubles there are far better books. It is passable as a decent, quick spy thriller.
Only if you can get past the narrator's atrocious prononciation of Irish words however.

A fun government account with everything you'd expect to not be included

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews