Stone Cold

by Martin Dillon

Book Overview

In March 1988 three unarmed members of an IRA active service unit were shot dead by SAS operatives in Gibraltar in a secret operation which became a political "cause celebre". At the funeral for the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 009922951X
• ISBN13: 9780099229513
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Another homerun by Martin Dillon.

Another excellent piece of work by one of the best authors to write on The Troubles in Northern Ireland. As with all of his works, "Stone Cold" is well written, fast paced, throughly researched, and fascinating. The book follows the life and times of a notorious Loyalist Protestant murderer, Michael Stone, who became a free-lance assassin, killing IRA suspects and innocent Catholics under the guise of 'protecting his community'. Dillon was able to build such a comprehensive study of Stone, in part, due to his multiple interviews of the mass-murderer himself. Reading Stone's very detailed accounts of his own murder operations was a veritable 'how-to' manual for modern assassinations, replete with counter-forensic and operational planning advice. Dillon successfully weaves Stone's killing sprees into the overall war that raged in Northern Ireland for thirty years, exposing British government collusion with the Loyalist paramilitaries which allowed cold-hearted terrorists like Stone to ravage Northern Ireland's communities.