Deadly Beat

''You go to work and you might be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home and wonder if you''ll be shot at the door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At times you wonder if this is really part of the UK''

This was the world inhabited by Richard Latham during his service with the Royal Ulster Constabulary – a force that remains an institution ...