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The Shankill Butchers

  • Imprint: Arrow

  • ISBN: 9780099738107

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 299g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Shankill Butchers

  • A Case Study of Mass Murder

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'This was the ultimate way to kill a man.'

During the 1970s a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which left thirty Northern Irish Catholics dead. Their leader was Lenny Murphy, a fanatical Unionist whose Catholic-sounding surname led to his persecution as a child for which he took revenge on all Catholics.

Not for the squeamish, The Shankill Butchers is a horrifying detailed account of one of the most brutal series of murders in British legal history - a phenomenon whose real nature has been obscured by the troubled and violent context from which it sprang.

  • Imprint: Arrow

  • ISBN: 9780099738107

  • Length: 416  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 299g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Gruesome yet compelling and superbly researched

    Tribune

  • Gruesome territory...the great value of Martin Dillon's carefully researched and readable work is that it enters a world that few journalists have been inclined or able to penetrate

    Listener

  • Mr. Dillon recounts in chilling detail the evolution of Murphy's gang and the efforts to catch them. It makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading

    Washington Times

  • A chilling book, chilling but fascinating ... People on both sides - or some of them - are likely to read Martin Dillon, and to learn from him

    Conor Cruise O'Brien

  • Dillon's books are a working lifetime's brave and persistent effort to get information of a kind which, as he frankly says, can be perilous to possess, let alone to reveal

    Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

Martin Dillon

Martin Dillon is a Belfast journalist who, after an initial spell on newspapers, spent eighteen years working for the BBC in Northern Ireland. He is an acknowledged expert on terrorism and is the author of The Shankhill Butchers, The Dirty War, Killer in Clowntown and Stone Cold. He lives with his family in France.

Martin Dillon

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