Mad Dog

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A mindless sectarian psychopath or a loyalist folk hero who took the war to the IRA's front door? 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 & glue-sniffer 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. Determined to lead from the front his men even fired a rocket at Sinn Fein's headquarters writing themselves into loyalist mythology & embarrassing the IRA in its republican heartl&. Its desperate attempts to kill Adair culminated in October 1993 when a bomb on the Shankill Road intended for the loyalist godfather claimed the lives of nine Protestant civilians. Mad Dog: The Rise & Fall of Johnny Adair & 'C Company' describes in graphic detail Adair's criminal empire & an egomaniac's bloody war against Catholics & anybody else who got in his way. Adair's friends & enemies talk for the first time about the murders he ordered his sordid personal life & his attempts
- ultimately disastrous
- to become Northern Ireland's supreme loyalist figurehead.