The Violent Enemy — Jack Higgins

Britain's most wanted political offender. A seductively beautiful woman, and the dream of a perfect escape-Many lives had been sacrificed for the Irish cause, but legendary freedom fighter Colum O-Mare, ageing and critically ill, was ready to gamble once more for a last devastating strike. Which is why Sean Rogan, soldier of the Irish Republican Army gets all the help he needs to break out of a mainland security prison. An escape into a nightmare beyond anyone's control-