Books like Lies of Silence

This was my final book from the 1990 Booker shortlist, which I have been reading as part of a project by The Mookse and the Gripes group. It is a gripping and horrific tale of a hotel manager caught up in an IRA plot.Michael Dillon is the manager of a Belfast hotel which is due to host a loyalist firebrand who must be modelled on Ian Paisley. He is planning to leave his wife and go to England with a young Canadian, when he is visited at home by masked IRA terrorists who demand that he leaves his car (which they have armed with a bomb) outside the hotel, while they hold his wife hostage with the threat to kill her if he does not comply. The book follows the moral dilemmas that they face. It is not a long book, but it is very difficult to put down.