Martin Dillon
This article is about the author and journalist. See Martin Dillon for the musician, operatic tenor, and professor of musicMartin Dillon is an
author and
journalist from
Northern Ireland. He worked for eighteen-years at the
BBC and has written a number of plays and novels, but he most well known for his non-fiction books about the
Northern Ireland conflict.
He gained particular acclaim for his book on the
Shankill Butchers, although this and other works on terrorism lead to him receiving death-threats from a number of terrorist groups, resulting in Dillon emigrating to
France and later to the
United States. He has also written books about the loyalist paramilitary
Michael Stone and
SAS founder
Paddy Mayne.
Currently he lives in
New York with his wife.
The Shankill ButchersThe Trigger MenThe Assassination of Robert Maxwell: Israel's SuperspyStone Cold: The True Story of Michael Stone and the Milltown MassacreThe Dirty WarRogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne LegendGod and the Gun*
Martin Dillon's own site
