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The Shoukri brothers - Andre and Ihab - were both Brigadiers in the Province's biggest paramilitary organisation - the Ulster Defence Association. They were also gangsters and drugs Godfathers who enjoyed the high life: flash cars, flash women, flash jewellery dangling round their necks and wrists. They were the living embodiment of how Northern Ireland's terror gangs turned to criminality: from the paramilitaries to the paraMafia.In one year alone, Andre Shoukri blew almost IR Punt1 million on the horses, earning him the soubriquet of 'The Bookies Brigadier'. But before the UDA eventually booted him out and he went to jail, Andre Shoukri sat on the Inner Council of the 'loyalist' organisation. Their lineage - their father was Egyptian - earned both Shoukris the nickname of The Mummy's Boys. They didn't like it. And they certainly didn't like Jim McDowell, the Northern Editor of the "Sunday World" and his staff in Belfast. Neither did a lot of other paramilitaries. And in this book McDowell charts not only the rise and fall of 'The Mummy's Boys', he also exclusively exposes the other threats and menaces endured by himself and his staff because they ruthlessly exposed what they called the paraMafia, loyalist and republican, right across Ulster's terror gang spectrum.
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Jim McDowell is an award-winning journalist and Editor of the Sunday World in Northern Ireland. He is also author of the bestselling Godfathers, the inside story of the drugs trade.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Was very disapointed by this book, there wasn't one fact or incident mentioned that i wasn't already aware of. The title of the book is so because Ihab and Andre Shoukri ,although Northern Irish, are of Egyptian descent. This title made me think the book was a biography of their paramilitary and criminal activities. Unfortunately alot of the book was taken up with other peoples stories ,which i had little or no interest in. If your new to the Shoukri's this book may be good for you ,but if you have followed the reports in the press you've read it all before.
More a story about the authors experiences as a crime reporter than a book about Ihab and Andre Shoukri. A missed opportunity i'm afraid
More a story about the authors experiences as a crime reporter than a book about Ihab and Andre Shoukri. A missed opportunity i'm afraid
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Very disappointed in this book, the book does not really go in to detail about the shoukris brothers. The book is all about the author jim mcdowell an his newspaper(sunday world).So the book should have bein called jim mcdowells life in the sunday world...
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