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    DISTURBING THE PEACE

    Oct 31, 2021 2 minutes
    by RUSSELL BROWN

    Northern Ireland has a historical landscape that commends itself to the crime thriller: murder, kidnapping, secrets, lies – and mysteries that linger more than two decades aft er a delicate peace was won. There literally are bodies buried and people who know where they are.

    All these are present in , which found creator Jed Mercurio as a draft script by new writer Chris Brandon. Mercurio picked it up to produce as a four-part miniseries and help bring aboard James Nesbitt in the lead role as craggy police detective Tom Brannick, a man with his own tormented past. Where Mercurio’s centres on the idea of police corruption, connects itself more directly to the Troubles and their aft ermath.

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