Blind Arrows (2015)
“Isham had been secretly watching her in the cell for weeks, and had grown obsessed with this pretty brunette, who had flouted all the rules of her middle-class upbringing and renounced so much in joining the female brigade of the IRA. Perhaps she had grown a bit too thin in prison for Isham’s liking, but that could not be helped. She was determined to sacrifice everything for the Republican cause and Mick Collins, even her health, and had barely eaten in the past few days.
Through the peephole, he admired her trim figure and the paleness of her skin. When she sat by the barred window in the afternoon, her hair seemed to grow candescent in the sunlight. She was young and enraptured and that made her irresistible to him. Amid the brutal, clanging cells, she was as strange and conspicuous as a white mouse among rats, and just as doomed.
He doubted that she would survive much longer in such a harsh environment, which was why he decided to spring into action that morning.
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