Green Tea, Black Guinness, Red Wine

This novel focuses on serving police officers with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, formerly the Royal Ulster Constabulary, portraying both the mix of tragedy and humour encountered in their on and off duty activities. It also examines family relationships, and the effect their work has on their personal relationships outside of their work environment. The aim is to convey the reality of present day policing in Northern Ireland, whilst also looking back at episodes that the former Royal Ulster Constabulary officers were involved in during ‘the Troubles’. The novel also provides a patchwork of terrorist and criminal incidents dealt with by the various characters, rather than one major crime. Place names and descriptions are genuine, as are the police procedures and policies referred to throughout. It is in the main humorous, with a bit of pathos added, and most of the characters and incidents are a blend of real life events, whilst others are entirely fictional. The author was a Detective with the Royal Ulster Constabulary/PSNI, working in staunch protestant loyalist and catholic republican areas in Belfast, retiring in 2004 after 25 years’ service.