- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd; illustrated edition edition (30 April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0717132986
- ISBN-13: 978-0717132980
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 404,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'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 the Author
Jim McDowell is the Northern Editor of the 'Sunday World'.
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An education in the "new-evil" of Northern Soceity,
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My first inclination to buy this book was out of respect for the late Martin O'Hagan, much of whom's work led to this book, and I wasn't really bothered about learning of the people running the drugs trade in Northern Ireland. I was pleasantly surprised however to find it an unusually clear insight to the links between the paramilitaries and the drug "Godfathers" of Northern Ireland. Jim McDowell pulls no punches and his genuine passion to see these men - and women - brought to justice is evident and is easily identifiable with. His disregard of what community a criminal belongs to is also refreshing in a society dogged by sectarianism. While not quite in the same class as his Sunday World colleague Paul Williams' Gangland, it is nonetheless an interesting read for anyone interested in Irish crime. It is also of interest to anyone wanting to understand the involvement of paramilitaries from both sides of the divide in this big-money trade. Although its organization and layout came accross as hurried (it was released within days of Martin's death), and some of the writing would be more at home in the Sunday tabloid of which McDowell is Northrn Editor, it is still well worth a read for its frankness, the passion of the author and for its thus far unique insight into the violent, vicious and carefree world of the drugs "Godfathers" and the involvement of paramilitary organizations in their world.
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ordered this book and didnt receive it after almost 4 weeks did get my money back the seller said a whole bag of their mail went missing very disappointed as it was a surprise for my brother has put me off ordering from this bookseller again
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