Shadow Troop is the story of Simon Cursey, an NCO with the long-denied Military Reaction Force (MRF), a short lived British Army Military Intelligence unit closely associated with MI6, in the most dramatic period of The Troubles in Ireland, from 1971 to 1974. But it is also the story of under-cover soldiers and their 'War on Terror'. We learn how IRA volunteer Jim Bryson, an IRA 'legend', was set up for ambush by the MRF. We hear first hand accounts of military actions that hardened attitudes for a generation and made peace unthinkable for so many. First-hand accounts from people on the frontline help illuminate one of the darkest period of The Troubles in Ireland.
