two bites at the cherry (english edition)  in the 70’s an extremist breakaway group of the ira ambushed an army patrol in armagh.<br>one soldier, although severely wounded, survived the attack. he was transferred to the military hospital at erskine in renfrewshire. it was later decided that he would be awarded a medal for bravery. keaveney, the brutal leader of the breakaway group, was determined to finish the job. he started to plan to attack the medal ceremony. he took a quantity of semtex from an ira cache. he planned a mock assault on the young sister of an electronic graduate to force him to cooperate in the design of the device. the ira high command muster a search squad to deal with the wild canon keaveney. northern ireland constabulary investigate a knee capping punishment and trace it back to keaveney. this gives them information about the stolen explosives and they notify strathclyde police. keaveney and his team put together the device which will monitor the ambience for a repeated sound pattern which will trigger it. disguised as workmen they set it in place.<br>the ira retribution squad, northern ireland constabulary and strathclyde constabulary are all at full alert in the hunt for the group. the device is monitoring. nothing can go wrong now. but a completely unforeseen and unpredictable occurrence takes place just prior to the ceremony and proves that robert burns belief that “the best laid schemes o’mice and men gang aft agley.”