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Godfathers! Jim McDowell

Godfathers! By Jim McDowell

Godfathers! by Jim McDowell


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Summary

'Godfathers' tells the story of the Northern Ireland drug trade. It names the names and exposes the stories of dealers and their enemies, revealing that some paramilitary groups are also involved.

Godfathers! Summary

Godfathers! by Jim McDowell

'Godfathers' is the story of the Northern Ireland drugs trade. It names the names and tells the stories of the dealers and their enemies. Dealers like Brendan 'Speedy' Fegan and Brendan 'Bap' Campbell, two of the brashest, highest-living, most cavalier young gangsters in Belfast. They loved the high life, the flash cars, the wads of money, the champagne lifestyle, the wild women. They both ended up on a pathologist's slab, gunned down by the paramilitaries. But 'Godfathers' also reveals that the paramilitaries are in the drugs trade too. We meet Ulster's porn queen who was the live-in lover of a UVF commander of North Belfast: she too graduated to the drugs trade. We meet the hard men who drive the trade. We look at the huge drugs problem in Ian Paisley's constituency. We look at the links between the UVF, the late Billy Wright and the late Martin Cahill 'The General'. King Rat and The General were in business together. McDowell reveals how the UDA and UVF are into drugs in a big way. He reveals that the Provisional IRA, despite their campaign against many dealers, have been prepared to bankroll major drugs operations in return for protection money. 'Godfathers' gives you the story from the streets.

About Jim McDowell

Jim McDowell is the Northern Editor of the 'Sunday World'.

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GOR001405027
9780717132980
0717132986
Godfathers! by Jim McDowell
Used - Good
Paperback
Gill
20010430
224
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