CONTENTS
Author’s Note
Dramatis Personae
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
Prologue. The Two Billys
1. The Bishop
2. ‘Hell Slap it into Them’
3. Liquidating the Enemy
4. The Beginning of the End
5. Talking and Killing
6. Regimental Loyalty
7. The Shankill and its Butchers
8. ‘That Bastard Murphy’
9. A Million Miles from Home
10. An Atmosphere of Pure History
11. At the Bottom of the Well
12. Compromise or Conflict
13. The Kitchen Cabinet
14. In the Hands of Philistines
15. Their only Crime was Loyalty
16. An Intense and Loyal Following
17. ‘You’re Either With Us or Against Us’
18. Family, in a Sicilian Sense
19. Decommissioning the Mindsets
20. The Praetorian Guard
Epilogue. The Sealed Knot
Endnotes
Abbreviations
UVF Structure
Chronology
Bibliography
Index