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 drug overdose, the old-school mobster swore revenge on the new generation of Liverpool-based heroin and cocaine d...
Drug dealers beware. The Devil is coming to get you. Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions and tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. Through "taxing" the rich...
It was 1976. Change was in the air. Disco was invading the dance floors. Punk rock was kicking off. Chicken-in-the-basket cabaret was fighting to hold its own. In Liverpool, a new and exciting youth trend was taking root. Fuelled by Liverpool Football Club’s success in Europe, fans had taken to w...
Drug dealers tried to freak each other out by whispering, ‘The Devil’s going to get you, the Devil’s going to get you.’ The prospect would genuinely unnerve them. I became the bogeyman of the underworld. A myth began to grow up around me, fuelled by my resolve and unshakable fearlessness in the p...