Callan (TV series) is run by Colonel Hunter. ("Hunter" is a pseudonym for the current Section Chief, like the C of SIS.) The Section removes those who pose a danger to the "innocent" by persuasion, blackmail, extortion or death. David Callan had been the Section's top operator but he had become too curious about his targets and the rationale for their removal. The Section considered him vulnerable, volatile and dangerous and had laid him off to a dead-end book-keeping job for an ungrateful employer. ABC then commissioned a series of six episodes in 1967. In the first episode Callan rejoins the section in
Michael Feeney Callan collection, "Fifty Fingers" (which includes his first poem, "Barbara"), was published in 2003. His second volume of poetry, "An Argument for Sin", was published in 2013. Callan describes the work as "a memoir in poetry, much influenced by Yeats' "A Vision" and Poe's ""." The book comprises poems written between 2003 and 2013. Callan won the Hennessy Literary Award for his short story, "Baccy", and was anthologised in "Best Irish Short Stories" (Elek, London, 1978). Thereafter he diversified widely, publishing fiction and non-fiction. Callan wrote a series of British television adaptation novels of differing genres, including "Capital City" (ITV), "Target: