Four Shots in the Night

Four Shots in the Night recounts the 1986 killing of Frank Hegarty, a Derry man recruited by British intelligence to infiltrate the IRA and reveal arms caches, who was executed with four shots to the head by the IRA's 'Nutting Squad'.

The book explores the shocking possibility that his assassin, Freddie Scappaticci (codename Stakeknife), was also a British agent, delving into the moral dilemmas faced by spymasters who sometimes sacrificed their own informants to protect larger secrets.

Henry Hemming uncovers the tangled web of infiltration that paralyzed the IRA and contributed to ending the conflict, drawing on interviews with handlers and extensive research.