TY - BOOK AU - McDermid,Val TI - 1979 SN - 9780751583083 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Little, Brown KW - Burns, Allie, KW - Irish Republican Army KW - Fiction KW - Nineteen eighties KW - Terrorism KW - Nineteen seventies KW - Scotland KW - Women journalists KW - Murder KW - Investigative reporting KW - Corruption KW - Glasgow (Scotland) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - 1979-1997 KW - Political fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thriller fiction KW - gsafd KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - Historical fiction N1 - "The first Allie Burns thriller" -- Cover; "She's hunting for a story. And someone's hunting her." -- Cover N2 - 1979. It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan are exposing the criminal underbelly of respectable Scotland. They risk making powerful enemies - and Allie won't stop there. When she discovers a home-grown terrorist threat, Allie comes up with a plan to infiltrate the group and make her name. But she's a woman in a man's world... and putting a foot wrong could be fatal ER -