A Comedy of Terror

A Comedy of Terror is a chilling book of fiction based on real events. Author and retired journalist John Scully uses grim humour to cover the lunacy of some of the endeavours and concocts nightmares to peer into hell-holes he could not reach.

The book covers two frantic decades from the 1970s to the end of the 1980s. It involves the trafficking of nuclear weapons by terrorists and power-crazed countries including Libya, Pakistan, North Korea, and Britain.

While the Vietnam War ended in humiliating defeat for the United States and its oleaginous keeper of the lies Richard Nixon, that endless catastrophe known as the Middle East also spewed an infamous peace treaty. But during these seemingly triumphant fallacies, terrorists’ eyes and money were elsewhere as they massacred and assassinated their way to secretly build A-bombs for the highest bidder. Few suspected Libya, the IRA, and British spies. Scully witnessed much of this horrific, heinous plot.

Scully was deeply involved in these events but is keeping his journalistic-based investigations secret. He has covered stories in all the countries named in this book with the exception of Afghanistan and North Korea. 

Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Terror-John-Scully/dp/1990589030/

A COMEDY OF TERROR

I worked long and hard on this book for a retired journalist by the name of John Scully. It’s an amazing book if I do say so myself. I feel as if it’s “my baby” (alas, it isn’t!). All I did was edit it, cover it, publish it. I did improve it a tad; the author will agree. Fiction allows John Scully to reveal secrets that would place many lives in danger (including that of the author) had the real identities and events been published. Libyan, IRA, and British spies are at the heart of the plots. Nightmares and grotesque humour are used by Scully to peer into hellholes beyond his reach. The book is the brutal and macabre story revealed by Scully–fiction based on raw, deadly truths uncovered by him during his career as an investigative and war journalist for the BBC, CBC, and CTV. The book focuses on arms dealing and terrorism in the 70s and 80s but is a lesson about today’s super powers as the world again descends into nuclear dread and secret deals that could have desperate consequences for us all. Scully has by-passed the cantankerous big publishing houses this time and went with a small Halifax, Nova Scotia, publisher (that would be me!!!). He hopes you’ll find this, his third book, compelling and essential reading. (I hope so, too!)

The book is available on Amazon; or locally from either the author or the publisher. Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/Comedy-Terror-John-Scully/dp/1990589030/ US: https://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Terror-John-Scully/dp/1990589030/