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Powder Wars: The Supergrass Who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers by: Graham Johnson List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 364 EAN: 9781840189254 ISBN: 1840189258 Label: Mainstream Publishing Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: October 06, 2005 Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Studio: Mainstream Publishing Sales Rank: 3882 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay - often with their blood. But when his son died of a drugs overdose, the old-school mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based heroin and cocaine dealers. Against all odds, he turned undercover informant. The first gangster to fall foul of Grimes' change of heart was Curtis Warren, aka 'Cocky', the wealthiest and most successful criminal in British history. Grimes infiltrated his cocaine cartel and led Customs to the largest narcotics seizure on record, putting Warren in the dock in the drugs trial of the twentieth century. After turning his attention to heroin baron John Haase, Grimes rose to become the boss of the villain's notoriously bloodthirsty 'security firm' - a professional gang of racketeers addicted to cocaine, explosive violence and non-stop criminality. But as his net began to tighten, Grimes was confronted with the ultimate dilemma. He discovered his second son was now a rising star in the drugs business. The life-or-death question was: should he shop him or not?Powder Wars also reveals the secrets behind one of the most controversial episodes in British judicial history - how former Home Secretary Michael Howard was duped into granting John Haase a Royal Pardon. Today, Paul Grimes has a GBP100,000 contract on his head and is a real-life dead man walking. Powder Wars is a riveting account of modern gangsters told in brutal detail. From the Publisher: Powder Wars is the true story of the supergrass who brought down Britain's biggest drug dealers. Gangster Paul Grimes was a one-man crimewave with a breathtaking capacity to steal. Any villains who got in his way were made to pay - often with their blood. But when his son died of a drugs overdose, the old-school mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based heroin and cocaine dealers. Against all odds, he turned undercover informant. About the Author: Graham Johnson has been a Sunday Mirror journalist since 1996 and the paper's Investigations Editor since 1999. He has covered a wide range of stories, including drug dealing in Britain, people smuggling in Europe, child slavery in India and Pakistan, and war in the Balkans. He currently lives in London. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Great readThis is a really interesting book on the crime scene based on true events from a "supergrass". A great author who tells the story of drugs and violence in a way that I could not put the book down. Not only a great read but an education in some of the biggest crimelords / drug dealers in the UK's past. Get it! Rating:  - Hypocritical Claptrap.This dodgy Scouse geezer wants us to believe he turned his back on crime because of the drugs trade which apparently was causing a lot more hurt to people than his own method of dealing with rivals, grasses, enemies etc. It's ok for him to mete out extreme ultra violence to all and sundry and to make money off the back of it, but drugs are really bad. What a hypocrite. He even admits to smoking cannabis himself. Rating: - A Gripping ReadOne of the best true crime books ive read, so much so i felt i had to review it. Undoubtedly Paul Grimes was a proper villain back in the day - his exploits with the 'Hole in the Wall gang' tell all. He turned his back on crime and became what every criminal says they despise - a grass or in Pauls case - a supergrass because of his stance against the drugs trade. Fair play, he had it all and lost it all - and his rise and fall is well documented in this book. Its an honest reflection of his life and its all true unlike a lot of other so called villains and hardmen who spout absolute boll***s throughout their pages. And with regard to the review that says about him giving curtis warren a good slap and him being young - thats real life, you want ... Read More: Rating: - Great readPaul Grimes's story of how he turned suoergrass after the death of his son from drugs is a cracking read. He charts his rise in the Liverpool underworld and then his fall, when he does a deal with Customs. Next to From Gangland to Promised Land and Essex Boys it's the best book I've read this year. Rating: - What a book!A great read from start to finish. At the end of it you kind of feel a bit sorry for him in a strange way. No one likes a grass do they but you can see it from his side of the story. He was just trying to do what he saw as right. Although through his criminal life he was a bully and a theif and beat many people as they says what goes around comes around. He got what was coming to him - NOTHING. He could of been sitting on millions now he has nothing, I would not like to be in his shoes today. What they all got up to was amazing,but all of them have paid either with their lives or with prison. |
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