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

Another unflinching and balanced view of The Troubles, this is a book that demands to be read even though the topic is deeply disturbing and there are few happy resolutions. The Shankill Butchers ultimately were a pack of sadists and psychopaths rationalizing their horrific acttions under thinly-veiled political justifications. At times I needed to put this book down for awhile because of the level of the brutality described. However, harrowing though it is, Dillon's work shines a light on man's inhumanity to his fellow man. Although the Shankill killings were one notably macabre aspect to the overall Troubles- the reader can see how intolerance in a community can breed ammoral killers like The Butchers.