num_pages: 352
description: The name Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair is synonymous with a killing spree by loyalist terrorists that took Northern Ireland to the brink of civil war. From humble beginnings as a rioter on Belfast's Shankill Road, Adair rose through the ranks of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters to head its merciless killing machine, "C Company." Surrounded by a group of trusted friends, his reign of terror in the early 1990s claimed the lives of up to 40 Catholics, picked out at random as Adair's hitmen roamed Belfast. Mad Dog describes in graphic detail Adair's criminal empire and an egomaniac's bloody war against Catholics and anybody else who got in his way. Adair's friends and enemies talk for the first time about the murders he ordered, his sordid personal life, and his attempts to become Northern Ireland's supreme loyalist figurehead. Using sensational new material, the authors expose the mass murderers who did Adair's bidding and provide new insights into some of the biggest secrets of the Troubles.
language: English
title: Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C Company'
titlecomplete: Mad Dog: The Rise and Fall of Johnny Adair and 'C Company'
characters: Billy Wright, Sam McCrory, Michael Stone, Andre Shoukri, Gina Crossan, Johnny Adair, Jackie "legs" Robinson, Brian Gillen, Mo Mowlam, William Dodds, Stevie McKeag, Patrick Finucane
genres: Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 148
places: HM Prison Maze, Belfast, Northern Ireland
publisher: Mainstream Publishing