O.L.S. is a fast moving thriller covering the period 1982-2000 (the Troubles) and the plot takes the reader from Northern Ireland to Scotland then South Africa.
The Plot:
A dissident IRA cell disagrees with the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which will affect their lifestyles as the money they are making from supplying protection rackets and drug dealing will disappear. Michael Caldwell the leader of the 1972 Club )(as they called themselves) decides on plans an attack on the Scotch Whisky industry unless the British Government meets his demand to pay a £20m ransom. Armitage Brown at MI5 is given the task of stopping the threat which will come in the form of bombs planted in whisky barrels which are distributed to bonds throughout Scotland.
Time is running short and the British refusal to pay the ransom means innocent lives of those living near the whisky bonds are in danger - but will MI5 be able to stop the terrorists?