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