Imprint: Arrow
Published: 19/07/1990
ISBN: 9780099738107
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 299g
RRP: £9.99
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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
Published: 19/07/1990
ISBN: 9780099738107
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 299g
RRP: £9.99
Gruesome yet compelling and superbly researched
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
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
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
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