The Man Who Closed the Border

What's it like to leave the Army, get a job as a Training Development Officer for a Training Board in Northern Ireland, a beautiful, quiet, peaceful place and have to open the door of a car fifty yards from the border with the Republic which might or might not have a bomb in it triggered to go off when a door is opened?
Read and find out! Jack, our hero finds out and then moves on to 'war' with trade unions as a quite different kind of war followed by 16 years fighting Industrial and Employment Tribunals where in one you have to prove a year is 1 January to 1 January and in another you have to prove that a year is 1 Jan to 31st December! Both cannot be right - so which one is it?