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An Accidental Villain

A Soldier's Tale of War, Deceit and Exile

Linden MacIntyre

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August 12, 2025

Penguin Random House Canada

  • Nonfiction

An Accidental Villain

A Soldier's Tale of War, Deceit and Exile

Linden MacIntyre

Linden MacIntyre launches his new work of non-fiction, which explores the life of Sir Hugh Tudor, decorated World War One officer, close friend of Winston Churchill, and the man who headed up Britain's colonial authority in Ireland. On the Irish streets and in the countryside, he utilized police death squads to wage a brutal campaign against rebel ""terrorists,"" inflicting brutal reprisals against IRA members and supporters and Sinn Féin politicians. Tudor would ultimately leave his family and homeland, settling in Newfoundland in 1925.