RORY CARROLL

on October 12, 1984, on the last day  of  the  Conservative   Party   Conference at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. An audacious attempt to wipe out the entire British government, it came astonishingly close to killing the Iron Lady. What followed was an epic hunt for the bombers. I draw on my own interviews and original reporting to weave what I hope is a work of gripping nonfiction.

I'm also the author of Comandante: Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, a chronicle of the late Venezuelan president’s tragicomic, oil-fuelled revolution in South America. It was named an Economist Book of the Year and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 

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I've been a foreign correspondent for the Guardian for two decades, covering Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq, the Balkans, Latin America and the US. I've also written for the Observer and The New York Times. I was long-listed for the Orwell prize for my coverage of Mexico’s drug war and Haiti’s earthquake. Since 2018 I've been based in my native Dublin as the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent.

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I started my career with the Irish News in Northern Ireland, where I was named Young Journalist of the Year. I hold a master’s degree in journalism from Dublin City University and a bachelor’s degree in politics and economics from Trinity College Dublin. I live in Dublin with my wife and daughter.