The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder,9780415922319

The Shankill Butchers: The Real Story of Cold-Blooded Mass Murder

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ISBN13: 9780415922319
ISBN10: 0415922313
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 1999-03-02
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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 Butchersis a horrifyingly 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 political and violent context from which it sprang.

Author Biography

Martin Dillon worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland for eighteen years and has won international acclaim for his non-fiction books about Ireland. A writer and producer of documentaries about political violence, Dillon is often featured in news segments on CNN, ABC News, CBC and National Public Radio, and is frequently called on as one of the foremost authorities on global terrorism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xi
Dr Conor Cruise O'Brien
Introduction xv
The Making of a Killer
1(12)
A Killer is Blooded
13(24)
A Killer Squad is Formed
37(14)
The Butchery Begins
51(8)
Charlie Division
59(16)
A Public Execution
75(20)
Murder Most Foul
95(18)
The First Mistake
113(12)
Murder Deal
125(16)
Orders from Prison
141(16)
A Natural Successor
157(26)
The Bombing Mission
183(10)
The Ultimate Witness
193(32)
The Public Avenger?
225(12)
`Mr X.' is Back
237(32)
Conclusion 269(8)
Postscript 277(8)
Index 285

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